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THE ARTICLE ATTEMPTS TO APPLY THE BEST OF PSYCHOLOGY TO THE GENERATION OF POLITICAL PEACE AND FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, WHICH IS WHAT HUMANS NEED AS CONDITIONS FOR THE GOOD LIFE. IT CITES EXAMPLES "CRUCIAL TO THE MEANINGFULNESS OF POLITICAL PSUCHOLOGY." THESE EXAMPLES INCLUDE: INDEPENDENT ANARCHY; EXOTIC DEMOCRACY; COMMUNITY, VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL; AND WAYS OF JUDGING POLITICANS.

Political Psychology does not have as much prominence in the US as in Europe. It should be promoted there to fill in the dearth of data on legislative & elite behavior. Political Psychology could provide a counterpoint to rational choice theory. Differences between Political Psychology & rational choice theory are discussed, eg, Political Psychology's consideration of political preferences as endogenous as well as exogenous. Both perspectives with their respective strengths & weaknesses should be applied to solving political research questions & covering both elite behavior & mass level behavior, traditionally the realm of Political Sociology & Social Psychology. References. M. Pflum

Around the 1960s, political psychology was developed as a field of knowledge that attempted to interrelate scientific psychology and political phenomena. However, social and academic conditions are very different today. More and more, political psychology is becoming a protagonist, as much in the internal context of psychology as in the external context of its relations with the social world. Thus, political psychology can now be seen as a resource relating psychological knowledge to social practice, and relating psychological processes to social action. (Original abstract - amended)

THIS PAPER ELABORATES ON A PAPER BY ROBERT JARVIS ON ONE KEY POINT. IT ANALYSES INTELLECTUAL FADS AND FASHIONS AND TWO STYLES OF SCHOLARSHIP AND LISTS FOUR DIFFERENCES TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF POLITICAL LIFE BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGISTS AND ECONOMISTS. IT CONCLUDES THAT POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY IS INDISPENSABLE TO OUR ACADEMIC ECOLOGY.