|
The politics of deceit
|
Smith, Glenn, W. |
A compelling indictment of the Bush Administration's cynical, anti-democratic manipulation of the media In this devastating analysis of American politics today, a former Democratic campaign advisor … |
OL12352913W |
|
The Affect Effect
|
W. Russell Neuman |
Passion and emotion run deep in politics, but researchers have only recently begun to study how they influence our political thinking. Contending that the long-standing neglect of such feelings has l… |
OL15186423W |
|
Superstition as ideology in Iranian politics
|
ʻAlī Rāhnamā |
A superstitious reading of the world based on religion may be harmless at a private level, yet employed as a political tool it can have more sinister implications. As this fascinating book by Ali Rah… |
OL15521549W |
|
The righteous mind
|
Jonathan Haidt |
A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists." |
OL16568840W |
|
The pursuit of the Nazi mind
|
Daniel Pick |
The remarkable story of how the Allies used psychoanalysis to delve into the motivations of the Nazi leadership and to explore the mass psychology of fascism. |
OL16717916W |
|
Shared land/conflicting identity
|
Robert C. Rowland |
"Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year con… |
OL16924313W |
|
Political culture
|
Walter A. Rosenbaum |
For introductory and intermediate undergraduate courses in political science. |
OL1832204W |
|
Personality and the foundations of political behavior
|
Jeffery J. Mondak |
"Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior is the first study in more than 30 years to investigate the broad significance of personality traits for mass political behavior. Drawing on the… |
OL18645100W |
|
Hard choices, easy answers
|
R. Michael Alvarez,John Brehm |
The authors examine several topics in public opinion research including the interaction between psychological predispositions and political information, the difference between individual and collecti… |
OL19670504W |
|
The Israeli mind
|
Alon Gratch |
"Israelis are bold and visionary, passionate and generous. But they can also be grandiose and self-absorbed. Emerging from the depths of Jewish history and the drama of the Zionist rebellion against … |
OL20015768W |
|
I'm right and you're an idiot
|
James Hoggan |
"Just as the natural environment can be polluted, so too can public discourse. I'm Right and You're an Idiot examines the sorry state of today's public square, showing how polluted, polarized convers… |
OL20045821W |
|
Understanding public opinion
|
Clyde Wilcox,Barbara Norrander |
"Understanding Public Opinion, edited by Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox, is a collection of original essays that explores the sources, content, and effects of American public opinion at the close… |
OL20568421W |
|
No Is Not Enough
|
Naomi Klein |
Journalist Naomi Klein explains that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half-century. |
OL21156050W |
|
Contentious performances
|
Charles Tilly |
"The book accomplishes three main objectives. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Seco… |
OL2680226W |
|
American dreamers
|
Kelly Bulkeley |
"When politicians and pundits refer to the American Dream, they do so to evoke images of national unity, identity, and a better future. But in what ways does this metaphor manifest in the actual drea… |
OL2931353W |
|
Vote for me
|
John Barron |
"Vote for Me reveals what it takes to become president of the biggest democracy of them all. Written by Australian journalist and News Radio presenter John Barron, who happens to be a US politics jun… |
OL7322654W |
|
Political psychology
|
David Patrick Houghton |
"What shapes political behavior more: the situations in which individuals find themselves, or the internal psychological makeup - beliefs, values, and so on - of those individuals? This is perhaps th… |
OL7797340W |
|
Civil passions
|
Sharon R. Krause |
In this book Sharon Krause argues that moral and political deliberation must incorporate passions, even as she insists on the value of impartiality. Her work provides a systematic account of how pass… |
OL8275573W |