Gian Vittorio Caprara, Michele Vecchione

Personal Polit & Realiz Democ Sppsy C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Personalizing Politics and Realizing Democracy brings to light recent and important contributions on personality psychology with respect to the democratic process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780199982868
• ISBN-10: 0199982864
• Artikelnr.: 47865130

Autorenporträt

Gian Vittorio Caprara holds a Laurea degree in Political Science and a Specialization degree in Psychology, both from the Catholic University of Milan. He is full professor of Personality Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, where he served as Chair of Department of Psychology, Dean of Faculty of Psychology and President of Federate Faculties of Arts, Law and Economics and Director of the Inter-University Center for the Research on the origin of prosocial and antisocial motivations. He has been visiting professor at University of Michigan, UCLA, UCI, Stanford University and Santiago University. He has been President of the European Association of Personality and is member of the Academia Europaea. He was NIAS Golestan fellow in 1996-1997 and fellow at SCAS in 2000-2001 and 2013-2014. Michele Vecchione holds a Laurea degree in Psychology from Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in Personality and Social Psychology from the University of Padua. He is associate professor of Psychometrics at the Department of Development and Social Psychology (Sapienza University of Rome) and junior research fellow at Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS). His main research interests focus on the application of multivariate statistics to diverse areas of psychology, with a special focus on personality assessment across multiple domains.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Personality and Politics in Contemporary Democracies
Chapter 2: Personality in Politics
Chapter 3: Moral Foundations of Political Action
Chapter 4: Personal Determinants of Political Divide
Chapter 5: Diversities and Commonalities in Political Attitudes
Chapter 6: The Private and Public Personality of Politicians
Chapter 7: Political Participation and Efficacy
Chapter 8: A Congruency Model of Political Behavior (Preference and Participation)
Concluding notes
About the authors