Political Psychology
Cover -- Political Psychology -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription notations -- Introduction: political psychology as an interpretive field -- Psychology and politics -- Interpretive political psychology -- Political behaviour as social practice -- Overview of the book -- 1 Public opinion and the rhetorical complexity of attitudes -- The collective will and the 'ideal' democratic citizen -- Political knowledge and the democratic competence of citizens -- The meanings of public opinion -- Paradoxes of opinion: attitudes and rhetorical complexity -- Dilemmas of ideology: nostalgia for communism -- Modelling diversity: public opinion as practice -- 2 Mass subjectivity, values and democracy promotion -- Mass subjectivity and the democratic competence of nations -- The universal psychological structure of human values -- Questioning democracy promotion: a breakdown of value priorities? -- Plurality and context in value orientations -- From aggregation to language games -- Whose values? Universalism and particularism in the structure of human values -- 3 The political psychology of intolerance: authoritarianism, extremism and moral exclusion -- Personality, political behaviour and the predisposition to intolerance -- The authoritarian mindset -- Social psychological aspects of extremism and rightwing activism -- Prejudice as social accomplishment -- Moral exclusion and bigotry: delegitimisation and dehumanisation -- Extending the scope of the political psychology of intolerance -- 4 Social representations of political affairs and beliefs -- From belief systems to social representations -- Political world as 'thinking' and 'knowledge' system -- Social representations: a theory of social communication and social knowledge -- Communication, identity and community.
