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Political Psychology

By Jon Elster

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
0521411106, 9780521411103, 0521422868, 9780521422864
LCC
JA74.5 .E47 1993
Open Library ID
OL1715431M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8633251 bytes)
Pages
216\220
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This provocative book takes up and develops the themes of rationality and irrationality in Jon Elster's earlier work. Its purposes are threefold. First, Elster shows how belief and preference formation in the realm of politics are shaped by social and political institutions. Second, he argues for an important distinction in the social sciences between mechanisms and theories. Third, he illustrates those general principles of political psychology through readings of three outstanding political psychologists: the French classical historian, Paul Veyne; the Soviet dissident writer, Alexander Zinoviev; the great French political theorist, Alexis de Tocqueville.

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