• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Political Psychology

Political Psychology

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521422868
ISBN13: 9780521422864
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 29 1993
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Philosophy