Información General

• Autores: Brady Wagoner (coord.), Ignacio Brescó de Luna (coord.), Vlad Petre Glaveanu (coord.)
• Editores: Information Age Publishing
• Año de publicación: 2018
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781641131759, 9781641131766
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Resumen

• “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others” once remarked Winston Churchill. In this day and age this quotation resonates more than ever. This book explores democracy from the perspective of social and cultural psychology, highlighting the importance of the everyday basis of democratic practices. This approach takes us beyond the simple understanding of democracy in its institutional guise of free elections and public accountability, and towards a focus on group dynamics and personal characteristics of the democratic citizen, including their mentalities, habits and ways of relating to others. The book features discussions of the two-way street between democracy and dictatorship; conflicts within protests, ideology and public debate; and the psychological profile of a democratic citizen and its critique. While acknowledging the limitations of today’s democratic systems, this volume aims to re-invigorate democracy by bringing psychology to the table of current debates on social change and citizenship.

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Listado de artículos

• • Part I. Niels Bohr lecture

    • The road to actualized democracy: a psychological exploration

      Fathali M. Moghaddam

      págs. 3-23

      

  • Part II. Transitions to and from democracy

    • Building group norms and group identities into the study of transitions from democracy to dictatorship and back again

      Winnifred R. Louis, Gi K. Chonu, Tulsi Achia, Cassandra M. Chapman, Joshua Rhee

      págs. 27-57

      

    • Looking for happiness, finding economic growth: the Chilean transition to democracy

      David Carré

      págs. 59-84

      

    • Democratic revolutions?: Insights on social stability and social change from psychology and politics

      Lucas B. Mazur, Siri Neset

      págs. 85-109

      

    • On social memory, paradoxes of opinion, and the democratic competence of citizens

      Cristian Tileaga

      págs. 111-126

      

  • Part III. Conflict in democracy

    • Alternating dominance: social categorization, group formation, and the problem of borders

      Gordon Sammut

      págs. 129-145

      

    • Actual democracy and a United Europe of States: a case study of austerity and protest in the Republic of Ireland

      Séamus A. Power

      págs. 147-163

      

    • Ideology and actualized democracy: allies or enemies?

      Sandra Obradovic

      págs. 165-180

      

    • Cultural psychology and politics: otherness, democracy, and the refugee crisis

      Constance de Saint Laurent, Vlad Petre Glaveanu

      págs. 181-197

      

  • Part IV. The democratic citizen

    • The perfect psytizen: sociohistorical debts and the limits of psychology as engineering for democracy

      Jorge Castro Tejerina, Marcos José Bernal Marcos

      págs. 201-223

      

    • Nurturing democratic citizens: a commitment for psychology?

      Alberto Rosa Rivero, María Fernanda González

      págs. 225-243

      

    • Educating for democracy: entrepreneurship education as a democratic discipline?

      Steffen Ernø

      págs. 245-261

      

    • Historical representations as contributions to the road toward actualized democracy

      Mario Carretero

      págs. 263-282

      

  • Part V. Concluding response

    • Psychology as a science of human placticity

      Fathali M. Moghaddam

      págs. 285-301