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Forthcoming Political Psychology Books

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  1. Religion and American Exceptionalism

    Edited by Dennis Hoover

    "American exceptionalism" was once a rather obscure and academic concept, but in the 2012 presidential election campaign the phrase attained unprecedented significance in political rhetoric. President Obama’s conservative critics—most notably Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney—accused the...

    To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge

  2. People-to-People Diplomacy in Israel and Palestine

    The Minds of Peace Experiment

    Edited by Sapir Handelman

    The Minds of Peace Experiment is a small-scale Israeli-Palestinian public negotiating congress. The exercise invites Israeli and Palestinian delegations to publicly negotiate solutions to their struggle over a limited period of sessions. The initiative is designed to demonstrate the peacemaking...

    To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge

  3. The Politics of Compassion

    Edited by Michael Ure, Mervyn Frost

    The Politics of Compassion provides a critical overview of the role of the emotions in politics. Compassion is a politically charged virtue, and yet we know suprisingly little about the uses (and abuses) of compassion in political environments. Covering sociology, political theory and psychology,...

    To Be Published August 29th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Elections in Hard Times: Southern Europe 2010-11

    Edited by Anna Bosco, Susannah Verney

    Series: South European Society and Politics

    Southern Europe has been at the heart of the European sovereign debt crisis and in the vanguard of the programmes of radical economic austerity implemented to confront it. During the first two crisis years, the consequences for domestic political stability were dramatic. Across the region, 2010-11...

    To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  5. Social Movements, the Poor and the New Politics of the Americas

    Edited by Håvard Haarstad, Mark Amen, Asuncion Lera St Clair

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    Håvard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He has worked extensively on the political economy of natural resource extraction, and the role of social movements, civil society and labor unions in politicizing extraction. Mark Amen is...

    To Be Published September 5th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Predisposed

    Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences

    By John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, John R. Alford

    Athenian vs. Spartan, Imperialist vs. Republican, Roundhead vs. Cavalier, monarchist vs. revolutionary, Bolshevik vs. Menshevik, Christian Democrat vs. Social Democrat, capitalist vs. socialist, fundamentalist vs. progressive, Labor vs. Tory, Democrat vs. Republican. For the 12,000 years that...

    To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Assessing Political Representation in Europe

    Edited by Christine Arnold, Mark N. Franklin

    Series: West European Politics

    It has long been realized that democratic governance requires a two-way flow of influence. Governments must be able to respond to what people want and people must be able to react to what governments do. These mechanisms of democratic governance have contributed to two research traditions: one, the...

    To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  8. The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas

    Multiculturalism and Beyond

    Edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, Sebastian Thies, Josef Raab

    Multiculturalism has shaped identity politics in the Americas over the past decades, as illustrated by politics of recognition, affirmative action, and increasing numbers of internationally recognized cultural productions by members of ethnic minorities. Hinting at postcolonial legacies in...

    To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Unpacking the Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics

    By Christina E. Bejarano

    Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance

    Many questions remain unanswered about the observable differences in voting behavior, partisanship, and cultural attitudes among men and women. Latino political participation in the United States is generally lower than the rest of the population, mainly due to their high proportion of youth and...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

  10. The Politics of Sex

    Morality Politics and Presidential Elections

    By Susan B. Hansen

    The American cultural landscape has shifted considerably since the 1990s. As church attendance has declined, seculars have increased in number and in political involvement. The economy was supposed to be the most important issue in the 2008 and 2012 elections, but social issues such as gay rights...

    To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge