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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.

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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 Amiram Raviv 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

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