By Eugene Borgida,Christopher M Federico,John L Sullivan
The quantity is prepared round 5 subject matters on the topic of democratic citizenship: citizen wisdom approximately politics; persuasion methods and intervention tactics; staff id and conception of person voters and social teams; hate crimes and intolerance; and the problem of swift adjustments in know-how and mass media. those issues tackle the major demanding situations to present views on citizenship, characterize topics which are imperative to the well-being of democratic societies, and mirror ongoing strains of study that provide very important contributions to an interdisciplinary political psychology viewpoint on citizenship. in different situations, students might be ignorant of paintings in different disciplines at the related subject and may good make the most of higher highbrow trade. those subject matters supply very good possibilities for the interdisciplinary cross-talk that characterizes the contributions to this quantity by means of famous students from psychology, political technological know-how, sociology, and mass communications. within the ultimate part, special commentators think of varied elements of the scholarly schedule placed forth during this quantity, together with what this physique of labor indicates concerning the nation of political psychology's contributions to our knowing of those issues.
Thus this quantity goals to supply a multifaceted, interdisciplinary examine the political psychology of democratic citizenship. The interdisciplinary bent of up to date paintings in political psychology could uniquely equip it to create a extra nuanced knowing of citizenship concerns and of competing democratic theories.
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