Skills Outlooks and Passions

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the study of the personal aspect of political processes.

A. F. Davies (Author)

9780521293495, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 January 1981

540 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.78 kg

Political psychology, as the study of the personal aspect of political processes, has a very long history, but it is only in the last decade that it has taken shape as a systematic discipline. This is the first book by a single author to provide a comprehensive account of relevant work in the field. The studies which Professor Davies reviews range from technical psychoanalysis to clinical and social psychology; from political science to management; from personality theory to general and political biography; and are fully international in scope. The order he bestows on them is original and instructive and as a sustained effort of critical discrimination the narrative is impressive and intellectually exciting. Throughout, the reader is made aware of a world of exploration and discover in the process of being opened up.

Part I. Skills: 1. Introduction
2. Agitating
3. Administering
4. Theorising
Part II. Outlooks: 5. The classification of world views
6. Attending to an outlook
Part III. Passions: 7. The neglect of affects
8. Affects in politics
9. The principal affects
10. Compound affects
11. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Political economy [KCP]