Political Psychology: Cultural and Crosscultural Foundations

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Cultural and Crosscultural Political Psychology: Revitalizing a Founding Tradition for a New Subfield....Pages 3-17
The Elusive Concept of Culture and the Vivid Reality of Personality....Pages 18-32
The Relevance of Culture for the Study of Political Psychology....Pages 33-46
Taboo Trade-Offs: Constitutive Prerequisites for Political and Social Life....Pages 47-65
Substance and Method in Cultural and Crosscultural Political Psychology....Pages 66-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Culture, Personality and Prejudice....Pages 89-107
The Political Culture of State Authoritarianism....Pages 108-127
Conflict and Injustice in Intercultural Relations: Insights from the Arab-Israeli and Sino-British Disputes....Pages 128-145
Culture and Ethnic Conflict....Pages 146-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
The Political Unconscious: Stories and Politics in Two South American Cultures....Pages 159-181
Cultural Nationalism and Beyond: Crosscultural Political Psychology in Japan....Pages 182-200
Change, Continuity and Culture: The Case of Power Relations in Iran and Japan....Pages 201-216
Value Adaptation to the Imposition and Collapse of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe....Pages 217-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Social Authority and Minority Status: Problems of Internalization and Alienation Among Japanese and Koreans in Diverse Cultural Settings....Pages 241-262
Multicultural Policy and Social Psychology: The Canadian Experience....Pages 263-284
American Character and National Identity: The Dilemmas of Cultural Diversity....Pages 285-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-320