ABSTRACT
In the past two decades, political psychology has become of increasing interest to scholars engaged in the study of politics. As a result, we now have an International Society of Political Psychology, a section in the American Political Science Association devoted to political psychology, and numerous smaller formal and informal organizations both within the United States and abroad that bring scholars together to talk about how political and psychological phenomena interrelate. The journal Political Psychology is now recognized as an important outlet for research and leading American and European journals in political science across the spectrum of specializations contain a growing number of articles using a political psychological perspective. Indeed, there are currently numerous articles in mainstream psychology journals that focus on political issues. And, each year new political psychology courses are added at the undergraduate and graduate levels in colleges and universities around the United States and elsewhere in the world.
