The Psychology of Politics
The Psychology of Politics is an introduction to political psychology. The field has a long past, but as an organized discipline, it has a short history. The long past is detailed in Jaap van Ginneken's historical first chapter of the book. The short hist
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William F. Stone
Paul E. Schaffner
The Psychology of Politics Second Edition
With 11 Illustrations
Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg London Paris Tokyo
William F. Stone Department of Psychology University of Maine Orono, Maine 04469-0140 USA Paul E. Schaffner Department of Psychology Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA
First edition published by The Free Press, New York, © 1974 by The Free Press. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Stone, William F. The psychology of politics. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Political psychology. 2. Political participation. II. Title. I. Schaffner, Paul, 194987-32313 JA74.5.S8 1988 320' .01 '9
© 1988 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 2nd edition 1988 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer-Verlag, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation , computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, etc. in this publication, even if the former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone. Typeset by Asco Trade Typesetting Ltd., Hong Kong.
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Preface
The Psychology of Politics is an introduction to political psychology. The field has a long past, but as an organized discipline, it has a short history. The long past is detailed in Jaap van Ginneken's historical first chapter of the book. The short history of political psychology as an organized discipline dates from 1978, when the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) was founded (Stone, 1981, 1988). The formal establishment of an interdiscipline drawing upon various social sciences had numerous predecessors in the 20th century: Wallas's (1908) Human Nature in Politics, Harold Lasswell's Psychopathology and Politics in 1930, a book with the present title by Eysenck (1954), and The Handbook of Political Psychology, edited by the founder of the ISPP, Jeanne Knutson. Her Handbook defined the field at the time of its publication in 1973 (see especially Davies' chapter). The present revision of Stone's (1974) work is more modest in its aspirations. It provides a selective introduction to the field, emphasizing topics that the authors believe to be representative and important. Many psychologically relevant topics, such as political socialization, participation, voting behavior, and leadership, are not represented among our chapter titles. However, these topics link naturally with those we have chosen to emphasize, and they are addressed at va
