The Psychology of Revolution
The Psychology of Revolution
Based on decades of psychological research and personal experience, Fathali M. Moghaddam presents a new and dynamic introduction to the psychology of revolution. He sets out to explain what does and does not change with revolution, using the concept of political plasticity or the malleability of political behavior. In turn, psychological theories of collective mobilization, the process of regime change, and explanations of what happens after regime change are discussed. This psychological analysis of the post-revolution period is pertinent because it explains why revolutions so often fail. General readers interested in learning more about the psychology of revolution, as well as students, researchers, and teachers in political psychology, political science, and collective action, will find this book accessible and beneficial.
- Examines both what leads to revolution and what happens in the post-revolution period
- Presents a psychological model of revolution to promote understanding of illusions and subjective interpretations
- Assesses the personalities of revolutionary leaders and key groups active in revolutions to examine the role of individual level characteristics in large-scale revolutionary changes
Product details
March 2024Paperback
9781009433228
250 pages
228 × 151 × 14 mm
0.37kg
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A psychological perspective on the puzzle of revolution
- Part I. Getting to Revolutionary Collective Action
- 2. Psychological theories and revolution: Material factors as drivers
- 3. Psychological theories and revolution: Subjective factors as drivers
- Part II. Regime Change
- 4. The tipping-point in regime collapse: Power and authority in transition
- 5. Psychological processes underlying revolutionary regime change
- 6. Psychological stepping stones to revolution
- Part III. What Happens After Regime Change
- 7. Behavioral continuity and attempts at perpetual revolution
- 8. Cultural carriers and the failure of revolutionaries to shape behavior
- 9. The role of personality in revolutions
- Part IV. Reevaluating Revolutions
- 10. The Illusion-Motivation Model of Revolution
- 11. Does human nature doom revolutions?
- Afterword: Revolutions as acts of collective creativity
- References
- Index.
