Mondak - Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior

Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...67

Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior

Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior is the first study in more than thirty years to investigate the broad significance of personality traits for mass political behavior. Drawing on the Big Five personality trait framework, Jeffery J. Mondak argues that attention to personality provides a valuable means to integrate biological and environmental influences via rich, nuanced theories and empirical tests of the antecedents of political behavior. Development of such holistic accounts is critical, Mondak contends, if inquiry is to move beyond simple blank slate environmental depictions of political engagement. Analyses examining multiple facets of political information, political attitudes, and participation reveal that the Big Five trait dimensions openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability produce both direct and indirect effects on a wide range of political phenomena.

Jeffery J. Mondak is James M. Benson Chair in Public Issues and Civic Leadership in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Nothing to Read: Newspapers and Elections in a Social Experiment (1995) and coeditor of Fault Lines: Why the Republicans Lost Congress (2009). Professor Mondaks articles appear in outlets including the American Political Science Review , the American Journal of Political Science , the British Journal of Political Science, Cognitive Brain Research , the Journal of Politics , and Public Opinion Quarterly . He has received awards for his research from the American Association for Public Opinion Research, the American Political Science Association, and the Midwest Political Science Association.

Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology

Series Editors

Dennis Chong

Northwestern University

James H. Kuklinksi

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology publishes innovative research from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the mass public foundations of politics and society. Research in the series focuses on the origins and influence of mass opinion; the dynamics of information and deliberation; and the emotional, normative, and instrumental bases of political choice. In addition to examining psychological processes, the series explores the organization of groups, the association between individual and collective preferences, and the impact of institutions on beliefs and behavior.

Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology is dedicated to furthering theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between the political system and the attitudes and actions of citizens.

Books in the Series

Asher Arian , Security Threatened: Surveying Israeli Opinion on Peace and War

James DeNardo , The Amateur Strategist: Intuitive Deterrence Theories and the Politics of the Nuclear Arms Race

Robert S. Erikson , Michael B. Mackuen , and James A. Stimson , The Macro Polity

James L. Gibson and Amanda Gouws , Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion

John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse , Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions

John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse , Stealth Democracy: Americans Beliefs about How Government Should Work

John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse , What Is It about Government that Americans Dislike?

Robert Huckfeldt , Paul E. Johnson , and John Sprague , Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks

Robert Huckfeldt and John Sprague , Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication

James H. Kuklinski , Citizens and Politics: Perspectives from Political Psychology

James H. Kuklinski , Thinking about Political Psychology

Richard R. Lau and David P. Redlawsk , How Voters Decide: Information Processing in Election Campaigns

Arthur Lupia , Mathew McCubbins , and Samuel Popkin , Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality

George E. Marcus , John L. Sullivan , Elizabeth Theiss-Morse , and Sandra L. Wood , With Malice toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments

Diana C. Mutz , Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes

Markus Prior , Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections

Paul M. Sniderman , Richard A. Brody , and Philip E. Tetlock , Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology

Karen Stenner , The Authoritarian Dynamic

Susan Welch , Timothy Bledsoe , Lee Sigelman , and Michael Combs , Race and Place

Cara J. Wong , Boundaries of Obligation in American Politics: Geographic, National, and Racial Communities

John Zaller , The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

Alan S. Zuckerman , Josip Dasovic , and Jennifer Fitzgerald , Partisan Families: The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany and Britain

Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior

Jeffery J. Mondak

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, So Paulo, Delhi, Dubai, Tokyo, Mexico City

Cambridge University Press

32 Avenue of the Americas, New York , ny 10013-2473, usa

www.cambridge.org

Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/ 9780521140959

Jeffery J. Mondak 2010

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 2010

Printed in the United States of America

A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data

Mondak, Jeffery J., 1962
Personality and the foundations of political behavior / Jeffery J. Mondak.
p. cm. (Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-521-19293-4 (hardback)
1. Political psychology. 2. Personality. I. Title. II. Series.
JA74.5.m64 2010
320.019dc22 2010011782

ISBN 978-0-521-19293-4 Hardback

ISBN 978-0-521-14095-9 Paperback

Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

Contents

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgments

This book outlines the case for the use of a particular model of personality trait structure, the Big Five approach, in research on political behavior. I began thinking about the possible importance of personality for mass politics in 1997, only a few years after psychologists published the first key works on the Big Five. I started gathering data a year later. In the more than a decade since, a great many people have provided numerous forms of assistance. Included are those who have helped in some manner with data acquisition, who have offered feedback on my papers and on this book, and who have joined me as coauthors on related conference papers and journal articles.

Next page

1234567...67

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior»

Look at similar books to Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Paterson Keith

A Practical Guide to Understand Borderline Personality Disorder: How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Help Borderline Personality Disorder

Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

Political Behavior of the American Electorate

Alexander L. George

Presidential Personality and Performance

Irving Louis Horowitz

Foundations of Political Sociology

W. Keith Campbell

The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments

Corso

Healing From Borderline Personality Disorder: My Journey Out of Hell Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Edwards Hazel

Difficult personalities: a practical guide to managing the hurtful behavior of others (and maybe your own)

Zlatan Križan

Sleep, Personality, and Social Behavior

Jerrold Post

Dangerous Charisma

Stephen M. Colarelli

The Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior

Princeton Review

MCAT Psychology and Sociology Review: New for MCAT 2015

Claudio Carere

Animal Personalities : Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

Discussion, reviews of the book Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.