Professors Kraus and Giles have written a thoughtful review of my Con-structing the Political
Spectacle (Edelman, 1988; Kraus and Giles, 1989). I am grateful to them for their generous …

The social sciences, as does science more broadly, offer a method for con structing and
testing materialist accounts of our world. The accounts we construct stand in sharp contrast …

There are a number of ways to approach deWning political psychology. For a very long time,
humans have inquired about their nature, seeking to reconcile their political beliefs and …

Bob Jervis' piece is characteristically far-ranging, thoughtful, rea ble, and generous. I would
agree with almost all of it, and just take portunity to elaborate a little on a key point. These …

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CP Snow, in his Rede Lecture on the scientific and literary worlds as separate cultures, lists
four groups needed by a country if it is to “come out top” in the scientific revolution. First, as …

Fields of scientific inquiry follow a common pattern. At the outset, excitement and enthusiasm
prevail as a small group of founders offers a new conceptual framework and, usually, a new …

The richness of political psychology is amply illustrated in the previous chapters of this
volume. Yet, as one contributor commented, there is no one basic theory associated with …

The volume is divided into four key sections. The first section serves as background for the
remaining three, which tackle specific complaints leveled at political psychology. The first …

Debates about democratic theory are inevitably layered on political psychological
assumptions. One point of tension concerns the quality of the ordinary citizens' political …