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1. Introduction: Bodies without Shadows -- 2 The Unveiling Body -- 3. The 'Pure Defense of the Innocent' and Innocence Lost: Imagining the Veiled Woman in Human Rights -- 4. The Woman Question -- 5. The Postcolonial Veil: Bodies in Contact -- 6. The Confessional Body -- 7. Conclusion

The political psychology of voting -- Voter decision making as a process -- The voter's information environment -- Good decisions are rational decisions. Or are they? -- The constrained rational voter -- Our identities matter -- The intuitive voter -- Emotions and voting -- So, what do voters do.

Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics. This book offers a comprehensive dialogue between empirical political scientists and normative theorists on the definition and contemporary practice of democratic manipulation.

It is a commonly held assumption among cultural, social, and political psychologists that imagining the future of societies we live in has the potential to change how we think and act in the world. However little research has been devoted to whether this effect exists in collective imaginations, of social groups, communities and nations, for instance. This book explores the part that imagination and creativity play in the construction of collective futures, and the diversity of outlets in which these are presented, from fiction and cultural symbols to science and technology. The authors discuss this effect in social phenomena such as in intergroup conflict and social change, and focus on several cases studies to illustrate how the imagination of collective futures can guide social and political action. This book brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from cultural, social, and political psychology to offer insight into our constant (re)imagination of the societies in which we live.

"First published in the 1980s, The Political Psychology of Appeasement contains some of the most influential political journalism of the 1970s. The author, a leading contemporary historian and commentator on international affairs, provides an incisive critique of the weaknesses and inconsistencies of U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s as well as a diagnosis of the malaise of Western Europe. Laqueur's essays range from the subject of Finlandization to the problems of peace in the Middle East and the origins of political terrorism. To each of these areas he brings a deep and compassionate sensibility, the knowledge of a professional historian, and the sharp eye of an experienced journalist. Not only is Laqueur a global thinker, but his thought is undergirded by the experiences of world travel and an intimate knowledge of world leaders. Most of this book's essays are pessimistic because the author addresses his topics bluntly and pragmatically. Many of Laqueur's predictions have been borne out by subsequent events. As he ruefully says in his original preface, there is nothing so conducive to lack of popularity than to be right prematurely. Made timeless by their insightful honesty, his essays teach us about the art of political appeasement and prediction in the modern geopolitical landscape."--Provided by publisher.

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia. Providing a contextual understanding of sexual violence in war, and situating Bosnian war rape in relation to subsequent conflicts, the book offers a methodological outline of how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political-psychological perspective. It presents empirical findings from the field that show what war rape can entail in the aftermath of armed conflict for victims and their communities. Through its comprehensive approach to Bosnian experiences, the volume expands the conceptualization of victimhood and challenges the assumption that sexual violence is a particularly difficult theme to study because of victim silence. Rather, the author demonstrates there are many voices that can provide insight and understandings of war rape and its impact without having to compromise the safety and privacy of individual victims. Finally, the book shows the ways in which individual experiences of war rape are shaped by national and international discourses on gender, sexuality and politics. This book will be of interest to students of political psychology, war and conflict studies, European politics, ethnic conflict, politics and IR in general.

This third out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series includes texts on psychology and international relations, causation, counterfactual analysis. The political psychology contributions draw on richer, ancient Greek understandings of the psyche and offer novel insights into strategies of conflict management, the role of emotions in international relations, and the modern fixation on identity.

A tribute to the legacy of John L. Sullivan / Christopher M. Federico, Eugene Borgida, and Joanne M. Miller -- Unravelling the complexities of tolerance / George E. Marcus -- Authoritarianism, threat, and intolerance / Stanley Feldman -- Putting groups back into the study of political intolerance / James L. Gibson, Christopher Claassen, and Joan Barceló -- The promise of adopting an emotional approach to understanding and reducing political intolerance / Ruthie Pliskin and Eran Halperin -- Tolerance and threat revisited : the dynamics of political tolerance under persistent terrorism / Michal Shamir, Marc L. Hutchison, Mark Peffley, and Yu Ouyang -- Ethnic and religious tolerance in Poland through the lens of the Sullivan et al. framework / Ewa Golebiowska -- Terror and tolerance : the challenge of inclusion of Muslims in Western Europe / Paul M. Sniderman, Rune Slothuus, Michael Bang Petersen, Rune Stubager, Robert Ford, and Maria Sobolewska -- Appreciating Madison's democracy : perceived homogeneity, tolerance, and support for democratic processes / Elizabeth Theiss-Morse -- Ideology in American public opinion, 1980-2004 : the changing role of individual differences / William G. Jacoby -- Basic human values and political judgment : a broader approach / Paul Goren and Matthew Motta -- A closer look at the ideological structuring of political attitudes / Ariel Malka -- The Sullivan effect / Jon Hurwitz and Mark Peffley -- Shaping the future of political psychology, one person at a time / Angela L. Bos and Monica C. Schneider -- John L. Sullivan : master mentor / Melinda S. Jackson -- John L. Sullivan's pillars of wisdom and how they influenced a young scholar / Dan Stevens -- John L. Sullivan : mentoring by example / John Transue -- Reflections on a life in political psychology / John L. Sullivan.