Poli 323 General Background Readings
UVIC2024

Virtually all required and recommended readings for this course are available online or will be made available through links in the course outline. There are however a number of textbooks and scholarly journals that offer general background.

Recommended Political Psychology Texts:
 David Patrick Houghton, Political Psychology, 2^nd edition Routledge, 2014;
The 2009 first edition is available freely at:
https://tsu.ge/data/file_db/faculty_psychology/Political_Psychology.pdf

Cristian Tileaga, Political Psychology: Critical Perspectives, Cambridge, 2013.

Christopher Hewer and Evanthia Lyons, Political Psychology: A Social Psychological Approach. Wiley, 2018.

Jon Krosnick et al. Political Psychology: New Explorations. Routledge, 2017.

Jan D. Dinnott and Joan S. Rabin (eds.) The Psychology of Political Behavior in a Time of Change. Springer, 2021.

Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Penguin 2017.

Martha Cottam, et al., Introduction to Political Psychology 3^rd edition Psychology Press, 2015;

Catarina Kinnvall et al. The Palgrave Handbook Of Global Political Psychology Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Leonie Huddy et al., The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology 2^nd edition, Oxford, 2013;

George Marcus, Political Psychology: Neuroscience, Genetics and Politics, Oxford, 2013;

Ashley Weinberg, The Psychology of Politicians, Cambridge, 2012;

This recent UBC Maters theses may also be of interest:

Mackenzie Lockhart 2017 Voting fast and slow. UBC MA thesis https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0354698

Journals for the Field of Political Psychology

Political Psychology

 Advances in Political Psychology

Journal of Social and Political Psychology
https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp

An online Social Psychology Textbook that may be useful
https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology

The summer 2024 session of Poli 323 was inspired by:

Poli 433 Course Readings
UVIC2022

Nearly all the required and recommended readings for this course are available online or will be made available through links in the course outline. Students may also find the Poli 323 recommended readings listed below of interest.