Vorwort
Presents a compelling analysis of the psychology of revolution for the first time since 1894.

Autorentext
Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, where he served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science (201621). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Peace and Conict: Journal of Peace Psychology (201421). His extensive publications include about thirty books and 300 papers, and he has won a number of prestigious academic awards.

Klappentext

"Based on both personal experience and objective research, this book presents a psychological analysis of revolution. Written in an accessible style for a broad audience, it discusses collective mobilization, regime change, and the post-revolution period"--

Zusammenfassung
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 nd this book accessible and benecial.

Inhalt
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.