Executive Director's Corner

To be respected is to be taken into account, and the psychiatric profile of Lucien Bouchard, separatist premier of Canada's Quebec Province, is a sign that our fledgling field is increasingly taken into account. The psychiatrist who unofficially volunteered his services to the Liberals "in the interests of good citizenship" (Prime Minister Jean Chretien denied the report had been commissioned) apparently wrote a less than flattering appraisal of the sometimes explosive premier, whose angry responses fueled stories in Toronto's Globe and Mail and other media after the magazine Saturday Night reported the existence of the profile. ISPP members were eventually asked to appraise the situation, and in her August 31 capstone article in the Globe and Mail, reporter Susan Delacourt wryly noted that if the premier is currently unhappy with this psychological intrusion into his domain, imagine his dismay next July when an expected 400 political psychologists will descend on Montréal, joining the 50 Canadian members of ISPP for the annual convention.

Referring to political psychologists as "the experts," the Globe and Mail story included interviews with political scientist Paul Roazen (York University) and ISPP members Stanley Renshon (City University, New York) and Peter Suedfeld (British Columbia), who is also president-elect of the Canadian Psychological Association. A common thread in their careful responses is recognition that psychologically-informed political commentary must rely upon intimate familiarity with both fields, a familiarity generally missing in the training of journalists and even psychiatrists. Our members' measured responses as they commented on this case helps account for the respect increasingly afforded the field of political psychology.

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From the President

I want to start by thanking all of you for having elected me as President and apologizing for missing the Krakow meeting. Along with our esteemed colleagues Roberta and Irving Sigel, my husband and I were stranded in Prague by the flooding along the border between Poland and the Czech Republic. I look forward to working this year with the officers of the society to continue to promote ISPP's interests.

I hope that we can make the 1998 annual meeting in Montréal, which will be our twenty-first, one of our most lively and well-attended. The theme, "Identities and Interests at the Close of the Century: The Contribution of Political Psychology," is meant to engage the contemporary debate over how individuals and groups define their political interests. The psychological concept of identity, especially as it is related to social norms, is used to explain not only the behavior of individuals and small groups, but the domestic and foreign policies of states. ISPP should have an important contribution to make to these controversies. As usual, however, our topics will be eclectic; papers, symposia, roundtables, and workshops will spread across the full range of political psychology. Jon Krosnick at Ohio State will be the program chair and I urge you to get in touch with him as soon as possible. Please urge your colleagues who are interested in political psychology and who might not yet be members of ISPP to join us.

Blema Steinberg has agreed to be the Conference Chair. She will advise Mat Hakemi, whom we welcome as our new Conference Director, and the organizing agency, Global Events, to ensure that the Montréal arrangements are suitable and interesting. She reports that "Montréal is a wonderful place to visit in the summer. The temperature in mid-July should be in the mid-70's to mid 80's without much humidity. In the summer, Montréal is host to a series of festivals, including the International Jazz Festival, the Just For Laughs Festival and the Montréal Film Festival. This gives the city a warm and festive spirit and we have become a prime destination for tourists looking for an exposure to the French language and culture without traveling off the North American continent." The conference will be held July 12-15 at the Crowne Plaza hotel on rue Sherbrooke in Montréal's Metro Centre. (No flooding is anticipated.) More information will be available in the spring newsletter.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Aaron Belkin for his services as Conference Director. His efforts on behalf of ISPP went far beyond the call of duty. We are all in his debt.

Finally, I would like to encourage all members of ISPP who have ideas and suggestions about how the society should be organized, activities it should undertake, themes it should address at conferences, or any other aspect of our collective identity to communicate with me. My email is mcrenshaw@wesleyan.edu, and my address is Department of Government, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459. Telephone 860-685-2504; fax 860-685-2412. It would be helpful to have your views before the midwinter Governing Council meeting in January, 1998, but I welcome them at any time.

Martha Crenshaw
ISPP President 1997-98

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psychological perspective as the year's best. Incidentally, preliminary discussion has begun about instituting best-book and best-dissertation prizes within ISPP, to encourage scholarly accomplishment and to supplement awards already conferred by the Society.

Finally, the October 3-5 meeting of the International Studies Association-Midwest in Cleveland, Ohio was co-sponsored (as noted on the cover of its program) by ISPP as well as the Foreign Policy Analysis section of ISA. ISA initiated the co-sponsorship because the program chairs desired the Society's presence and the kinds of panels our membership would bring. ISPP President-elect David Winter was among the presenters on an ISPP-sponsored panel on "New Directions in Political Psychology." Other co-sponsored panels covered topics such as "Nationalism and State Identity" and "Leaders and the Social Construction of Constituencies." We hope to promote more co-sponsored conferences of this kind in the future as a way to bring the Society to the attention of a wider audience of potential members. ISPP members belonging to kindred associations who might be willing to help organize a co-sponsorship are encouraged to contact me.

The Central Office has a new Assistant. Jodi Miller, a graduate student in political science at Kent State University, joined our staff in August. She and I can both be reached by email at ispp@kent.edu, by phone at 330/672-7974, and by fax at 330/672-9485. Please contact us with your concerns and suggestions.

Steven R. Brown
Executive Director

Political Psychology

Forthcoming Special Issues

Political Psychology and Social Capital
Special issue editor: Jeffrey Mondak, Department of Political Science, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32312

The special issue editor welcomes manuscripts concerning all aspects of the link between political psychology and social capital. Our preference is for original empirical studies. We are especially interested in papers examining the psychological antecedents of social capital, trust, and civic engagement; in research on the attitudinal and dispositional consequences of social interaction; and in works on the connection between social capital and both news media and popular media. Papers may focus on social capital in the United States, but we also encourage cross-national and comparative research. Interested authors should contact the special editor directly. Final deadline for manuscripts to be considered for inclusion in the special issue is March 1, 1998.

Culture and Foreign Policy Analysis
Special issue editors: Valerie Hudson, David M. Kennedy Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 and
Martin Sampson, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

This issue will include work on cross-cultural psychology that is pertinent to the study of foreign policy, plus work on foreign policy that is pertinent to the study of culture in psychology and/or other social science fields. Papers that have an empirical component are particularly encouraged. Surveys of empirical literature of one field (e.g. psychology, anthropology, etc.) with reference to research objectives of another field (e.g. foreign policy analysis) are also welcome. If your research is within these areas, please contact Valerie Hudson (Valerie_Hudson@byu.edu) or Martin Sampson (Marsam@polisci.umn.edu) for further information.

Call for Papers and Symposia

ISPP 21st ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING

Montréal, Canada 12-15 July 1998

The theme of this meeting is "Identities and Interests at the Close of the Century: The Contribution of Political Psychology." Besides submissions that address any aspect of this theme, the program will also cover the full range of theory and research in political psychology. International and interdisciplinary panels and events are strongly encouraged.

The ISPP program consists of papers, symposia, roundtables and workshops Those submitting proposals should specify the category into which their proposal fits.

1. Name, professional affiliation and complete addresses

(mail, telephone, fax, and e-mail) for each and every author of the paper;

2. Formal title of the paper;

3. A 150-word abstract of the paper.

Groups of related papers, by different authors, are encouraged; each author should submit a title and abstract and the information requested in (i) above. The program chairs reserve the right to add papers, grouping papers into sessions according to topic.

A symposium consists of a group of closely coordinated papers by different authors that are designed to address a particular issue or problem, usually with one or two discussants. Proposals for symposia should provide the same information as for papers for each participant including the symposium chair and discussants. The program chair reserves the right to add papers to a symposium proposal. Those who propose a symposium are responsible for arranging the participation of all symposium members and submitting the required information for each participant.

A roundtable is a more informal discussion among people of contrasting or complementary points of view. Although roundtable participants do not write formal papers, proposals for roundtables should include the same information as for a paper (see above) for each participant. Those who propose roundtables are responsible for arranging the participation of all roundtable members. Participants may be required to present brief opening statements.

A workshop is an extended session involving some kind of participation, application, or demonstration. Size is limited; there is advance registration and a fee for participants. Proposals for a workshop should include the name, professional affiliation, and complete mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail of the organizer with a title and reasonably full description of the activity.

Offers to chair paper sessions or serve as a discussant are welcome. Please indicate your area of expertise and interest, and provide a full address.

The deadline for submitting proposals to the program chair is 9 January 1998, but earlier submission is urged, especially if you need a formal letter of invitation after your proposal has been accepted. Participants will be expected to arrange their own travel to Montréal.

The preliminary program, along with pre-registration materials (including accommodations and travel information) will be mailed to all ISPP members and those participating in the 21st Annual Scientific Meeting in late March 1998.

ISPP AWARDS

The Alfred M. Freedman Award for "The Best Paper at the Annual Scientific Meeting"

Recipients: W. Rusell Neuman, George Marcus, and Michael B. MacKuen

The Freedman Award Committee (Maritza Montero, Janice Stein, and Rick Lau, Chair) chose "Emotion and Reason in Mass Political Behavior" by W. Rusell Neuman, George Marcus, and Michael B. MacKuen as this year's winner of the Freedman award, given to the best paper presented at the 1996 annual ISPP convention. This paper posits a complimentary, rather than oppositional, role of emotion and reason in political decision making. Drawing on recent empirical studies of political behavior and a corpus of theory from brain science and the psychology of emotion, the authors show that the emotions of threat and anxiety serve the functions of attention arousal, information filtering, and prioritization in the vote decision. Because emotion plays a central role in political learning, the authors suggest that the traditionally invidious distinction between passion and reason in democratic politics proves to be a misleading and inappropriate model for the study of political psychology.

The committee was very impressed by the overall quality of all of the nominated papers.

For the Committee
Richard R. Lau

ISPP Publicist Position

At the business meeting in Krakow, the ISPP Governing Council created the position of Publicist, whose task it will be to bring the Society and its activities to the attention of groups and individuals whose interests are compatible with ISPP, and vice versa. The Publicist's main activities would be to monitor the World Wide Web, academic journals, and other sources for opportunities to promote the Society. The Publicist would report to the Editor of ISPPNews. Persons interested in this position should contact the Executive Director:

Roberta Sigel Graduate Student Paper Award

Recipients: Kristin Hill Maher and
David P. Redlawsk

The two co-winners of the first Roberta Sigel Graduate Student Paper Award are Kristin Hill Maher of the Department of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine for her paper, "A Nation of Immigrants: Mapping National Identities in a Post-national Order," and David P. Redlawsk of the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University for his paper, "The Role of Memory in Voter Decision Making: A Process Tracing Study of a Presidential Election Campaign." Maher's paper was judged as an outstanding effort to apply a cognitive mapping framework and semi-structured interviews to the question of identity in a multi-national context. Redlawsk's paper provides a rigorous quantitative examination of the role memory plays in voter decision making.

The two papers, which were very different from each other in their substantive and methodological approaches, reveal the breadth and richness of the field of political psychology as a whole. The Roberta Sigel Graduate Student Paper Award for the best student paper in political psychology that has been written in the previous 18 months was established in 1995. In this first year, nine papers were submitted and a three person committee including Alan Elms, Roberta Sigel and Marc Howard Ross (chair) read the papers and selected the winners.

For the Committee
Marc Howard Ross

Jeanne Knutson Award for Service to the ISPP

Recipient: George Marcus

This year's recipient of the Jeanne Knutson Award for Service to the ISPP is George Marcus, of Williams College, the retiring Executive Director of the ISPP. Professor Marcus was selected by Fred Greenstein, the president; Doris Graber, the previous president; and Martha Crenshaw, the president-elect. As Greenstein remarked at the awards ceremony in Krakow, "George Marcus has been both indefatigable and highly effective in his services to the society. His will be a hard act to follow."

For the Committee
Fred I. Greenstein

Nevitt Sanford Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Political Psychology

Recipient: Philip Tetlock

Ten years ago, Philip Tetlock received our Erikson Award for outstanding contributions made by a young scholar. Now, although his career is far from over, we gratefully recognize his overall achievements in political psychology. To list them all would take more space than we have. Since he has contributed to so many fields of political psychology, all of us are familiar with some of Phil Tetlock's work, although only a few with interests wide enough to match his will know them all. The main thrust of his research has been a political psychological analysis of foreign policy and international politics, with a deep concern for how international tensions are established, maintained, and can be reduced. To this end, he has applied a number of methodologies and approaches, with special attention to cognitive complexity, whose sources, effects, and predictive powers he has done much to explore. He has also probed the role of a number of cognitive and motivational biases and has explored the relations among them. More recently, he has led investigations of the role of counterfactuals in helping us understand both the course of history and the ways we think about it.

Students of American politics and political attitudes will be familiar with his numerous publications in this area. Focusing on how people think about central values such as liberty and equality, and reason on issues that bedevil public policy, such as affirmative action, he has furthered our understanding of the way attitudes are formed and maintained on issues that matter greatly to individuals and our society.

Phil Tetlock has also demonstrated a commitment to applying our scholarly understanding to issues of national import through numerous publications and his editorship of a series of volumes pulling together the research from several social science fields that is relevant to the prevention of war. He has also urged us to take care lest we allow our policy preferences--one might almost say prejudices--to inappropriately drive our analytical conclusions.

Tetlock has thus earned, perhaps several times over, the Society's Nevitt Sanford Award for distinguished professional contributions to political psychology.

For the Committee
Robert Jervis

Harold Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Political Psychology

Recipient: Betty Glad

Throughout her career, Betty Glad has been a leader in the field of political psychology. At a time when many theories assumed that political actors are dispensable and that when you have seen one statesman, you have seen them all, Betty Glad probed for individual differences. When many scholars looked at cognitive processing and argued that ego and developmental processes either did not matter or were too difficult to grasp, she showed both their relevance and their amenability to scholarship. When psychobiography either drifted toward the humanities or often presented caricatures based on a few convenient facts, she carried out very thorough empirical research and developed portraits of great subtlety. She has both brought many major political figures to life and demonstrated how their behavior can and must be understood in light of their personalities.

Betty Glad has also carried forward the vital tradition of political psychology's concern with pressing national issues, especially war and peace. Thus she has both encouraged research on "the psychological dimensions of war," to take the title of a book she edited, and carried out such work herself especially on deterrence, the domino theory, and learning.

Her work brings together great theoretical sophistication and careful empirical research. It is well-grounded in and contributes to generalizations about political life while exploring the nature and impact of individuals' personalities. We and our students have benefited greatly from it and will turn to her writings for many years to come.

It is therefore appropriate and fitting for the International Society of Political Society to present Betty Glad with the 1997 Harold Lasswell Award for distinguished scientific contributions to political psychology.

For the Committee
Robert Jervis

Erik H. Erikson Early Career Award

Recipient: Paul 't Hart

Paul 't Hart's scholarship has contributed to our understanding of group decision-making at both the small group and bureaucratic levels. His first major book Groupthink in Government: A Study of Small Groups and Policy Failure, (1990) revived interest in this topic and contributed to the theoretical development of the concept. Demonstrating how political psychology can contribute to policy science, Paul moved beyond the theoretical world in this book and made concrete suggestions for improving decision-making. He subsequently became an adviser to the Dutch government and followed up his initial interest in Groupthink with an edited volume entitled Beyond Groupthink: Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy Making (1996).

Paul has pursued a continuing interest in how people and government manage crises. He has written a host of articles and several books on the management of disasters, riots, and terrorism and has contributed important political psychological insights to the world of public administration. More Recently, Paul has published a book entitled Understanding Policy Fiascoes (1996) that presents his findings from a series of in-depth studies of policies that have gone awry.

For a young scholar Paul 't Hart has published an extraordinary number of high quality books and articles in several languages. His scholarship advances important theoretical and conceptual themes in political psychology and connects the insights of the academy directly to the world of policy making.

For the committee,
Richard Herrmann

Graduate Student Panels

The International Society of Political Psychology has set aside two panels of the 1998 Annual Scientific Meetings (Montréal) for graduate students who are working in the area of emotions and politics. Any graduate student who is doing work in this area, or any faculty member of ISPP who has a student they would like to nominate for inclusion in the panels, should contact Prof. George E. Marcus:

Summer Institute in Political Psychology

The seventh annual Summer Institute in Political Psychology was held at The Ohio State University from June 23-July 18, 1997. The participants in this year's Institute represented 26 universities and 10 foreign countries. The seminar was again a great success, with four weeks filled with stimulating debate on topics of political psychology, informative workshops on research methods and lectures from top political scientists and psychologists. In addition, the Institute welcomed M. Kent Jennings, University of California, Santa Barbara; Kathleen McGraw, State University of New York, Stonybrook; Tom Tyler, University of California, Berkeley; and Stephen Walker, Arizona State University as Guest Specialists. The Institute offers its participants the opportunity to interact with a diverse gathering of political psychologists while learning about the latest research and theoretical issues in the field.

The eighth annual Summer Institute in Political Psychology will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from July 20th through August 14th 1998. The Summer Institute is sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology in collaboration with The Ohio State Departments of Political Science and Psychology and the Mershon Center. The Institute is designed to introduce participants to the major theories and research findings from psychology and political science used in political psychology as well as to help participants integrate information from the two fields and to provide them with opportunities to interact in an environment that fosters sharing perspectives and experiential learning. The Institute is intended for advanced graduate students in political science, psychology and related disciplines. Junior faculty and other professionals may also apply, especially those interested in an in-depth introduction to political psychology. Up to 45 participants will be admitted. For more information and a copy of the Institute brochure, visit The Ohio State University Political Science homepage. For application forms, contact:

Margaret Hermann
Mershon Center
Ohio State University
1501 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201

Email: wituski.1@osu.edu

The Association for Politics and the Life Science Annual Meeting

The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) will hold its first independent annual meeting, September 3-6, 1998 in Boston. APLS has traditionally held its meeting in conjunction with the meeting of the American Political Science Association. However, the recent growth of APLS--especially among scholars and scientists from fields other than political science--has prompted the association to begin sponsoring its own annual meeting.

The conference program will include panels, roundtables, plenary lectures, a banquet, and other activities. The keynote speaker will be Edward O. Wilson (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University). Plenary speakers will include George Annas (Medicine and Ethics Program, Boston University), Richard Butler (Executive Chairman, United Nations Special Commission on Iraq), Patricia King (Georgetown University Law Center), Frans de Waal--if travel plans permit (Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University), and James Q. Wilson (Graduate School of Management, UCLA). The meeting's program chair is Gary R. Johnson, APLS Executive Director and Editor of Politics and the Life Sciences.

Additional information will appear in a formal call for papers/abstracts in October or November, 1997, periodically at the association's web site , and in the December 1997 issue of APLS News, the association's newsletter. Those interested in the meeting who are not currently members of APLS may be added to a mailing list for the call for papers by contacting:

Gary R. Johnson,
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
Lake Superior State University
640 West Easterday Ave.
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783-1699
USA
Tel: +1-906-635-2757
Fax: +1-906-635-2111
Email: gjohnson@lakers.lssu.edu

SPSSI's 1998 Convention to Take Place in Ann Arbor, Michigan from June 19-21

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues invites proposals addressing theory and research on national and international issues for inclusion in its 1998 stand-alone convention. The convention will be held Friday, June 19 -Sunday, June 21 on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. We strongly encourage participation by those with interests in specific social issues. Program events of special relevance to graduate students will also be planned. Proposals for symposia, posters, and roundtable discussions are welcome and must be received no later than January 12, 1998. To obtain a copy of proposal forms, contact:

SPSSI Central Office
P.O. Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
Phone: (313) 662-9130
Fax: (313) 662-5607
Email: spssi@umich.edu

Sixth Congress of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation at Congress Centrum Hamburg in May 1998

"Challenges and Needs of Psychosocial Rehabilitation in a Changing World" is the watchword of the 6th Congress of the World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR), which will take place at the CCH (Congress Centrum Hamburg) May 2-5, 1998. This event is expected to attract 2000 participants from countries throughout the world, and takes place at the invitation of the Rehabilitation Forum "Focal Points in Psychiatry", which has been held annually at the CCH since 1995. It will cover a wide variety of subjects in psychosocial rehabilitation of the mentally ill, such as:

·Rehabilitation and therapy ·Rehabilitation and research
·Rehabilitation and relatives ·Rehabilitation and self-help
·Rehabilitation, economics and social policy

For more information, contact:

Juliane Papendof
CCH Press Officer
Tel: +49 40/3569-2446
Fax: 040/3569-2459
Email: papendoff@cch.de

REGISTER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

The organizers of the 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, taking place August 9-14, 1998 in San Francisco, have issued the Second Congress circular, which includes Congress registration and housing reservation materials. The early registration deadline is April 1, 1998.

Hosted by the American Psychological Association (APA) on behalf of the International Association of Applied Psychology, the Congress program will feature an array of individual and group presentations on: organizational psychology; psychological evaluation and assessment; psychology and national development; educational, instructional, and school psychology; clinical and community psychology; applied gerontology; health psychology; economic psychology; psychology and law; political psychology; sport psychology; traffic and transportation psychology; and other areas such as applied social, applied developmental, human factors and ergonomics, and social issues. The Congress program will also offer: an exhibit of major publishing, technological, and psychological companies; continuing education workshops; site visits to clinics, laboratories, and industrial settings; and excursions to nearby tourist attractions.

To request a copy of the circular, contact:

Political Psychologist Position

Claremont McKenna College invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in political psychology. The successful candidate should be able to teach undergraduate courses in political psychology, research methods, and statistics as well as courses related to his or her own areas of interest. The ideal candidate will be an excellent teacher who will engage bright undergraduates in meaningful research. We are especially interested in a psychologist with interests in such areas as decision-making, voting behavior, use of mass media, and the role of science in public policy.

Claremont McKenna College is a highly selective undergraduate institution enrolling approximately 1000 students. CMC is a member of The Claremont Colleges, which also include Pomona, Scripps, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd and The Claremont Graduate University. Collectively, The Claremont Colleges constitute an academic community of 6,000 students. Claremont is located 35 miles east of Los Angeles.

Closing date for applications is November 17, 1997. Applicants should provide a curriculum vitae, a statement of interest, and arrange to have three letters of reference submitted to:

Political Psychology Search Committee
Mark Costanzo, Chair
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, California 91711-6420

Claremont McKenna College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.

Farewell

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Parting Pointers

As retiring president of the ISPP I have a few parting comments. At the risk of making it seem like a shopping list, I will number them.

1. It is an honor and a pleasure to have been so recognized. I thank you one and all.

2. The job is a bit like being a department chair. I commiserate with Martha Crenshaw and David Winter.

3. I am constantly reminded how richly cosmopolitan our small organization is. The Kracow meeting provided

one more reminder of that. I commend all of you to spread the benfits of ISPP membership and enlist your colleagues, students, and professional associates.

4. Governance meetings are still too time consuming. I hope that in the future we will do more to clarify issues in advance by use of email.

5. Again, thanks and greetings to one and all. See you next year in Montréal.

Book announcements and descriptions are published in this section. For book reviews, send submissions to the ISPP journal Political Psychology

Identity, Ideology and Conflict: The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland

By John Cash,
Cambridge University Press,1996.

Ideologies and identities are central to the organisation of political life and political conflict, yet most empirical studies tend to obscure their significance. This failure to take the politics of identity seriously arises from an absence of an adequate theory and method. This study draws on both social theory and psychological (especially psychoanalytic) theory in an attempt to overcome these lacunae. First, it develops a novel theory and method for the analysis of ideology and identity. Second, it develops a detailed analysis of the politics of identity in Northern Ireland through focussing upon Unionist ideology and Unionist identities in crisis. The political conflict within Unionism is analysed through a consideration of the variety of unconscious rules drawn upon by political actors and citizens in the making of Northern Ireland's history of the present.

• 1. Competing paradigms in the study of intergroup relations;
• 2. Conceptualising ideology;
• 3. The structuration of ideology;
• 4. Ideology and affect;
• 5. Ideology and reasoning;

• 6. Towards a depth-hermeneutics of Unionist ideology;
• 7. Crisis and the structuration of Unionist ideology, 1962-1969;
• 8. Crisis and the structuration of Unionist ideology, 1969-1975;
• Conclusion.

Conscience At War: The Israeli Soldier as a Moral Critic

By Ruth Linn
State University of New York Press

The focus of this book is the intellectual and moral challenges selective conscientious objection poses for resisters in Israel. It is the first psychological study on the Intifada refusniks. Linn uses the theories of Rawls, Walzer, Kohlberg and Gilligan as a framework for understanding and interpreting interviews with 48 intifada objecting soldiers. She seeks to answer such questions as: How would various groups of objecting soldiers justify their specific choice of action? What are the psychological, moral and nonmoral characteristics of those individuals who deciede to be, or refused to be, patriotic? And how did the intifada, as a limited yet morally problematic military conflict, affect the moral thinking, emotions and moral language of long-term soldiers?

Ruth Linn is a professor in the School of Eudcation at Haifa Univesity, Israel. She is the author of Not Shooting and Not Crying, Psychological Inquiry into Moral Disobedience which was awarded the Erik Erikson award by the ISPP.

ISBN 0-7914-2778-1              245 pp.

The Politics of Denial

By Michael A. Milburn and Sheree D. Conrad
MIT Press

What is the driving force behind the rage of America's white males? Emotion appears to be playing a growing role in politics, as evidenced by vociferous opposition to welfare, abortion, and immigrants, as well as by the rise of the radical Religious Right, antienvironmentalism, and the increasingly neoconservative slant of American public opinion.

The Politics of Denial presents a compelling explanation of these phenomena, providing solid empirical evidence for the role of rigid, harsh child-rearing practices in the creation of punitive, authoritarian adult political attitudes.

The authors, social psychologists, show how both the political and the public policy processes in the United States are distorted by the unresolved negative emotions (such as fear, anger, and helplessness) that remain from punitive parenting, and by the politicians and conservative religious leaders who exploit those emotions. Among the many public figures discussed are Patrick Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan, and Billy Graham.

Milburn and Conrad define the concept of denial, describing its origins, observing its pervasiveness in American life, and detailing its negative effects on mental and physical health and on thinking itself. They then present the results of their broad-based research and explain how their model accounts for the rise of the Religious Right, its political attitudes, and some of the recent extreme acts of violence against gays and abortion providers.

The chapters that follow analyze the effects of denial on public opinion about issues such as punishment in schools, support for prisons, and fear of immigration. They discuss how political leaders exploit an angry electorate. They explore the legacy of slavery on blacks and the denial of its effects by whites; extreme denial in acts of governmental violence and genocide; and the role of denial in the destruction of the environment.

These are complex issues for which there are no simple solutions. Nevertheless, the authors propose in the concluding chapter some measures to alleviate the negative effects of denial on politics and public policy.

ISBN 0-262-13330-X 336 pp. 3 illus. $25.00 (cloth)

From Cold War to Cold Peace?

By Peter Ester, Loek Halman & Vladimir Rukavishnikov
Tilburg University Press (Netherlands).

Email publisher: TUP@KUB.NL

Leaders and Leadership An Appraisal of Theory and Research

By Mostafa Rejai and Kay Phillips
Praeger Publishers.

Three interrelated objectives provide the subject of this study: to cover a wide range of topics on leaders and leadership; to present up-to-date treatments of those topics; and to offer extensive bibliographies for further study and research.. The opening chapter defines leadership. Subsequent chapters treat the relationship between leaders and followers and the prerequisite skills of leaders; transforming leaders, transactional leaders, and military leaders; the motivations of leaders; the functions of leaders; comparative studies of leaders; women as leaders; and research frontiers in the study of leadership. This study should prove very useful for political scientists, for sociologists, and for military historians and professionals.

CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgment; Concept of Leadership; Leaders, Followers, and Skills; Types of Leaders; Motivations of Leaders; Functions of Leaders; Comparative Studies of Leaders; Women Leaders; Leaders and Leadership: Research Frontiers; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Mostafa Rejai is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Miami University.

Kay Phillips is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Miami University.

ISBN 0-275-95880-9 C5880 $50 00 Est.

Kudos

Neustadt Award

The American Political Science Association's Presidency Research Group Neustadt Award Committee chose ISPP member Stanley Renshon's High Hopes as this year's Neustadt Award for the best book on the presidency published in 1996.

Grawemeyer Award

Herbert Kelman, past president of the ISPP won this year's Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

George Washington University Announces Graduate Certificate in Political Psychology

The Political Psychology Program of The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs is pleased to announce a new graduate certificate program in political psychology. Directed by Jerrold M. Post, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs, the program consists of six 3-hour courses and can be completed in less than nine months of full-time study or up to three years of part-time study. The program has an applied focus and features instructors from both the academic and professional communities.

Certificate candidates interact with graduate students in GW's Political Psychology Program, which regularly includes representatives from the intelligence and foreign policy communities. Courses in the program include Fundamentals of Political Psychology (with emphasis on leadership and decision making), Political Socialization and Public Opinion, Methods in Political Psychology, Theory and Practice of International Negotiations, and Political Violence and Terrorism.

For more information about the program contact Graduate Admissions at (202) 994-7050/esiagrad@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu or Dr. Jerrold Post at (202) 994-736/jpost@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu.

Prof. Steven R. Brown
Executive Director - ISPP
Department of Political Science
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242-0001
USA

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Department of Psychology,
Ateneo de Manila University,
P.O. Box 154,
Manila, Philippines
Email: montiel@admu.edu.ph

Western Europe: Dr. Fernando Reinares,
Titular Professor of Sociology,
Departamento de Sociologia, Universidad
Nacional de Educacion a Distancia,
Senda del Rey s/n,
28040 Madrid, Spain

East Asia: Dr. Chih-yu Shih,
Associate Professor,
Graduate Institute of Political Science,
National Taiwan University,
21 Hsu Chow Road,
Taipei, Taiwan ROC,
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