Taylor and Francis Jones, P: Party, Parliament and Personality

"Party, Parliament and Personality" is a collection of essays on political psychology from some of the best known names in political science in England (Ivor Crewe, Vincent Wright, Rod Hague, David Hine, Iain McLean). The central focus of the volume is British politics, but the book also contains a number of comparative chapters, indlucing Hague's theories of presidential personality, which explores psychodynamic theories of personality in the context of the US presidency and David Hines' on the political psychology of corruption, which focusses on Italy. The book also presents a number of chapters on political theory, including Albert Weale's on the central nature of disagreement in democratic politics. "Party, Parliament and Personality" emphasizes the psychology of individual political actors as well as the personalities of political philosophers such as Hobbes and Rousseau. ...