Political Psychology

Cultural and Cross-Cultural Foundations. This text examines how cultural and political psychology shape a range of contemporary issues. It broaches such issues as international and cross-cultural conflict, cultural diversity and human rights, revealing how individual and public psychology intersect with politics and culture. Military force transforms political institutions, branches of government continually battle for power and position, leaders rise and leaders fall, but the key to the dynamics of these phenomena-the psychology of our political leaders, and that underlying most political processes-remains one of the most understudied aspects of political life. New political forces, such as the trend toward globalization, have resulted in an ever growing need to understand the relationship between psychology, culture and politics.