Description
Book SynopsisFathali M. Moghaddam explores how psychological factors influence the presence, potential development, or absence of democracy. Recommendations are given for promoting the psychological processes that foster democracy.
Trade Review“Exceptionally informed and informative, impressively thoughtful and thought-provoking, The Psychology of Democracy is an outstanding work of accessible scholarship.” —Midwest Book Review
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The Psychology of Democracy is a useful text for readers from a variety of disciplines. Lay persons, undergraduate students, and psychologists and political scientists would all find the book a useful and informative study of democracy.” —PsycCRITIQUES
Table of Contents Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Psychology and the Context of Democracy
- Globalization and National Identity
- Characteristics of the Democratic Citizen
II. Psychology and the Necessary Conditions for Democracy
- The Democracy Circle
- Leaders Responsive to the Wishes of Citizens
- Rule of Law
- Leaders Removable Through Popular Will
- Freedom of Speech
- Minority Rights
- Independent Judiciary
- Universal Suffrage
- Meritocracy
- Justice
III. Looking Forward
- Democratic Actualization
References
Index
About the Author
