This collection recalibrates the study of political psychology through detailed and much needed analysis of the discipline's most important and hotly contested issues. It advances our understanding of the psychological mechanisms that drive political phenomena while showcasing a range of approaches in the study of these phenomena.

This ground-breaking collection on a vibrant new area of political science promises to be the definitive collection on political psychology, a vital resource for all scholars working in the discipline

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: Origins, Developments and Current Trends; Tereza Capelos, Henk Dekker, Catarina Kinnvall and Paul Nesbitt-Larking PART II: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES 2. Social Representations and the Politics of Participation; Caroline Howarth, Eleni Andreouli and Shose Kessi 3. Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorisation Theory; Denis Sindic and Susan Condor 4. Psychoanalysis as Political Political Psychology; Stephen Frosh 5. Methodological Approaches in Political Psychology: Discourse and Narrative; Phillip L. Hammack and Andrew Pilecki 6. Dialogical Approaches to Psychology and Ethics; Sarah Scuzzarello 7. Experiments: Insights and Power in the Study of Causality; Tereza Capelos PART III: THEMES 8. Lessons from the Postcolony: Frantx Fanon, Psychoanalysis and a Psychology of Political Critique; Ross Truscott and Derek Hook 9. Conflict Analysis and International Relations; Karin Aggestam 10. 'Do the Terrorists have Goatee Beards?': Contemporary Understandings of Terrorisms and the Terrorist; James McAuley 11. Gender, Race and Ethnic Relations; Sebastian E. Bartos and Peter Hegarty 12. Voting and Not Voting: The Principal Explanations; Henk Dekker PART IV: HOT ISSUES 13. Political Emotions; Nicolas Demertzis 14. Group-Focused Enmity: Prevalence, Correlations and Causes of Prejudices in Europe; Beate Küpper and Andreas Zick 15. Political Psychology of European Integration; Ian Manners 16. Migration and Multiculturalism; Paul Nesbitt-Larking 17. Political and Civic Participation among Ethnic Majority and Minority Youth; Dimitra Pachi, Theopisti Chrysanthaki and Martyn Barrett 18. Fear, Insecurity and the (Re) Emergence of the Far Right in Europe; Catarina Kinnvall 19. A Political Psychology of Conflict: The Case of Northern Ireland; Neil Ferguson, Orla Muldoon and Shelley McKeown 20. Narrating Moments of Political Change; Molly Andrews 21. The Culture of Conflict and its Routinisation; Daniel Bar-Tal, Guy Abutul Selinger and AmiramRaviv 22. Narrative Constructions of Conflict and Coexistence: The Case of Bosnia-Hezegovina; Johanna Mannergren Selimovic 23. Political Socialisation and Social Movements: Escaping the Political Past? Igor Petrovi?, JAcquelien van Stekelenberg and Bert Klandermans PART V: CONCLUSION 24. Ideology, Society and the State: Global Political Psychology in Retrospect; Paul Nesbitt-Larking