POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY Political Science 823, Fall :20-3:15pm Tuesdays 4004 Vilas

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1 POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY Political Science 823, Fall :20-3:15pm Tuesdays 4004 Vilas Kathy Cramer 221 North Hall office: hours: Thursday 1:00 to 2:00 pm or by appointment PURPOSE OF THE COURSE: This course is designed to introduce the core concepts and current controversies in the field of political psychology. Although this is a subdiscipline in and of itself, complete with an international association (the International Society of Political Psychology) and journal (Political Psychology), research in political psychology can be found across all areas of political science research. Here is why I find this topic fascinating and important: much of social science and the understanding of human behavior hinges on the belief that people act on the basis of their interests. But interests are not at all a given. Why do people think what they do about politics? How do they make sense of the world around them and how does this matter for politics? Those are the fundamental questions we will ponder this term. Please be aware that Jonathan Renshon has just joined our faculty. He is an excellent political psychologist whose primary focus is international relations and leadership and experimental methods. I encourage you to take a course from him as well. REQUIREMENTS: You will each write a set of one-page reaction papers, a term paper proposal, and a term paper. The term paper is due Monday, December 16th. This will be either a thorough research design that includes a thorough literature review or a report of original research that takes the form of a journal article. Your choice to pursue either a research paper or a research design should be driven by your familiarity with the literature in the area in which you wish to pursue research. You will all be responsible for a thorough understanding of the literature on the topic of your choosing and for formulating a question that is important. That is, your papers should ask a question that addresses a gap in existing literature and whose answer would contribute to scholarship and the broader public. If you can formulate such a question and collect data within the first month or so of class, I strongly encourage you to write a research paper. Otherwise, invest your time in writing a research design paper. The papers should be a concise and focused 17 to 20 pages. A short 2-3 page proposal is due September 24th. If you choose to write a research paper, you are responsible for 4 one-page reaction papers. If you choose to write a research design, you are responsible for 6 reaction papers. You may choose which weeks you write these papers, though I encourage you to spread them throughout the term. On the weeks that you write a paper, it is due via to the class list (polisci823-1-f10@lists.wisc.edu) by noon on the Monday before class. These papers should be reflections and/or critiques on a selection of the week s readings. By critique, I mean an analysis of the claims, evidence, or methods, which can include praise as well as criticism. The best papers take the following form: They have a brief introduction that identifies a key argument or claim mentioned or implied in the week s readings. The body of the paper then gives a careful

2 and thorough analysis of the evidence the week s readings have on this point. This is followed by your reading of this evidence in light of other research, and a rigorous analysis of current events. In other words, the papers focus on one point, ransack the week s readings for all the details and evidence they have to offer on this point, and include your own original insight. Citing specific pages is encouraged. These papers will be graded. Even if you are auditing the class, I strongly encourage you to write six of these papers. Each week, I would like each of you to to me (kjcramer@wisc.edu), by noon on the Monday before class, 2 questions that you would like us to pursue as a group. These can be substantive questions such as, What did Author X mean by statement Y? or Compare the claims made in article A to article B. They can also be methodological questions, such as I don t understand what s going on in Table 1 in Article Z. Let s interpret it together. Your questions do NOT have to fit one of these formats these are just ideas. I will record whether you complete this assignment every week, but the purpose is not to give you another task it is to give you another opportunity to set the agenda of the topics we cover in seminar. I will only give an incomplete for this course under rare circumstances. Your grade will depend on your performance on the short papers and completion of weekly questions (25%), your participation in class discussions including the day you lead discussion (quality of participation weighted by volume of participation, to count as another 25%), and the term paper (50%). I will grade on an A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+ etc. basis, even though final grades are assigned on an A, AB, B, BC, C basis. The following books are required for the course and are available at the University Book Store. These books are also available in the reserve room at College Library. Most of the readings not found in one of the required texts are available through the UW Library system (use the Find-It button on the UW Library home page to locate the pdf files. Here s the web link for the find-it tool: Entering the journal title, year and start page usually gets you to the pdf right away). The remaining readings will be available through Learn@UW. These are marked with a * in the calendar below. BOOKS: Chong, Dennis Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society. Zaller, John R The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kinder, Donald R. and Cindy D. Kam Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Key to Journal Acronyms: AJPS: American Journal of Political Science APSR: American Political Science Review ASR: American Sociological Review BJSP: British Journal of Social Psychology JOP: Journal of Politics POQ: Public Opinion Quarterly PP: Political Psychology PoP: Perspectives on Politics CLASS LIST We have a class list that I may use occasionally to send course-related announcements and that you will use to post your one-page papers. I encourage you to also use this address to discuss course-related matters with others in the seminar. Also, you will be sending your one-page reaction papers to this address. Our class address is polisci823-1-f13@lists.wisc.edu. SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS I wish to fully include persons with special challenges in this course. Please let me know if you need any special accommodations in the curriculum, instruction, or assessments for this course to enable you to fully participate. Every effort will be made to maintain the confidentiality of the information you share with me. You may also contact the McBurney Disability Resource Center, 1305 Linden Drive, (608) , if you have questions about campus policies and services. 2

3 CALENDAR (*=Readings not available on line, but available in coursepack. Readings other than recommended are required.) I. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD 9/3 1. OVERVIEW AND HISTORY OF THE FIELD Simon, Herbert Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science. APSR 79: Monroe, Kristen Renwick, William Chiu, Adam Martin and Bridgette Portman. What Is Political Psychology? Perspectives on Politics 7 (4): Sears, David O., Leonie Huddy, and Robert Jervis The Psychologies Underlying Political Psychology. In Sears, Huddy, and Jervis. Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Available at *Krosnick, Jon A. and Kathleen M. McGraw Psychological Political Science Versus Political Psychology True to its Name: A Plea for Balance. In Kristin Renwick Monroe (ed.) Political Psychology. Mahwah: New Jersey: Erlbaum. Pp /10 2. ORIGINS OF POLITICAL PREFERENCES AND PERSPECTIVES M. Kent Jennings Residues of a Movement: The Aging of the American Protest Generation. American Political Science Review 81 (2): Plutzer, Eric Becoming a Habitual Voter: Inertia, Resources and Growth in Young Adulthood. APSR 96(1): Jennings, M. Kent, Laura Stoker, and Jake Bowers Politics Across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined. Journal of Politics 71(3): Hatemi, Peter K. et al Genetic and Environmental Transmission of Political Attitudes Over a Life Time. Journal of Politics 71(3): Prior, Markus You ve Either Got It or You Don t? The Stability of Political Interest over the Life Cycle. Journal of Politics 72 (3): Sears, David O. and Nicholas Valentino Politics Matters: Political Events as Catalysts for Preadult Socialization. American Political Science Review 91 (1): Mondak, Jeffery J., Matthew V. Hibbing, Damarys Canache, Mitchell A. Seligson And Mary R. Anderson Personality and Civic Engagement: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Trait Effects on Political Behavior. APSR 104(1): Soss, Joe Lessons of Welfare: Policy Design, Political Learning, and Political Action. American Political Science Review 93(2): Jennings, M. Kent Residues of a Movement: The Aging of the American Protest Generation. APSR 81: Mannheim, Karl The Problem of Generations. In Philip G. Altbach and Robert S. Laufer (eds.) The New Pilgrims NY: David McKay. Litt, Edgar Civic Education, Community Norms, and Political Indoctrination. American Sociological Review 39: Sapiro, Virginia The Political Integration of Women. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois. 3

4 9/17 3. PUBLIC OPINION AND POLITICAL EVALUATION Zaller. Chapters 1-6. Key, V.O Public Opinion and American Democracy. New York: Knopf (Digital copy of book available through UW libraries) *Lippmann, Walter The World Outside and the Pictures in Our Heads. In Public Opinion. New York: Pelican Books. Bartels, Larry M Candidate Choice and the Dynamics of the Presidential Nominating Process. AJPS 31(1): Chong, Dennis How People Think Reason and Feel about Rights and Liberties. American Journal of Political Science 37(3): Hastie, R. and B. Park The Relationship Between Memory and Judgment Depends on Whether the Judgment Task is Memory-Based or On-Line. Psychological Review 93: Berelson, Bernard, Paul F. Lazarsfeld and William N. McPhee Voting: A Study of Opinion Formation in a Presidential Campaign. Chicago: U of Chicago Press. 9/24 4. PERSUASION DUE: Short (2-3 pages) term paper proposal. Include question you are addressing; whether you are doing a lit review/research design or original research; if original research, then possible data you have located or are in the process of locating that you will use to research this; brief sketch of previous research you are familiar with to date that addresses your question, and a justification of the importance of this project to the research literature and its implications for the broader public. Sears, David and Richard E. Whitney Political Persuasion. In Ithiel de Sola Pool and Wilbur Schramm (eds.) Handbook of Communication Chicago: Rand McNally. Pp (Available at Zaller. Chapter 9 (see also 7 and 8 for background and model). *Tversky, Amos and Daniel Kahneman Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions. In Daniel E. Bell, Howard Raiffa, and Amos Tversky (eds.) Decision Making: Descriptive, Normative, and Prescriptive Interactions. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press. Druckman, James N Political Preference Formation: Competition, Deliberation, and the (Ir)relevance of Framing Effects. APSR 98(4): Chong, Dennis, and James N. Druckman. Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies. APSR 101(4): Krosnick, Jon A. and Donald R. Kinder Altering the Foundations of Support for the President Through Priming. APSR 84: Nelson, Thomas E. and Zoe E. Oxley Issue Framing Effects and Belief Importance and Opinion. JOP 61: Levy, Jack An Introduction to Prospect Theory. In Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks. In Barbara Farnham (ed.) Avoiding Losses/Taking Risks: Prospect Theory and International Conflict. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press. Pp Mutz, Diana C., Paul M. Sniderman, and Richard A. Brody, (eds.) Political Persuasion and Attitude Change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Cobb, Thomas D. and James H. Kuklinski Changing Minds: Political Arguments and Political Persuasion. AJPS 41:

5 10/1 5. IDEOLOGICAL REASONING Converse, Philip E The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics. In D.E. Apter (ed.) Ideology and Discontent. New York: The Free Press. (Available at ftp://ftp.voteview.com/the_nature_of_belief_systems_in_mass_publics_converse_1964.pdf) *Lane, Robert E Political Ideology. New York: The Free Press. pp 3-11, 13-25, 57-81, Conover, Pamela.J. and Feldman, Stanley. (1981). "The Origins and Meaning of Liberal/Conservative Self-Identification," AJPS 25: Kuklinski, James H. and Buddy Peyton Belief Systems and Political Decision-Making. In Russell J. Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp Baldassarri, Delia, and Andrew Gelman Partisans without Constraint: Political Polarization and Trends in American Public Opinion. American Journal of Sociology 114 (2): Smith, Kevin B., Douglas R. Oxley, Matthew V. Hibbing, John R. Alford, and John R. Hibbing Linking Genetics and Political Attitudes: Reconceptualizing Political Ideology. Political Psychology 32 (3): Harris-Lacewell, Melissa Barbershops, Bibles, and BET. Princeton. Kinder, Donald R Diversity and Complexity in American Public Opinion. In Ada Finifter (ed) Political Science: The State of the Discipline. Washington: APSA. Pp Erickson, Bonnie H Networks, Ideologies and Belief Systems. in Peter V. Marsden and Nan Lin Social Structure and Network Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage. Tetlock, P. E Cognitive Style and Political Belief Systems in the British House of Commons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 46, Sniderman, Paul M., Richard A. Brody and Philip E. Tetlock. Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology. Chapter 6. Exchange on Genes an Ideologies in Perspectives on Politics 6 (02), /8 6. LIMITS OF COGNITION *Downs, Anthony An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. Chapters Gilens, Martin Political Ignorance and Collective Policy Preferences. APSR 2: *Tversky, Amos and Daniel Kahneman Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Science 185: Rahn, Wendy The Role of Partisan Stereotypes in Information Processing about Political Candidates. AJPS 37: Lupia. Arthur Shortcuts versus Encyclopedias: Information and Voting Behavior in California Insurance Reform Elections. APSR 88: Brader, Ted Striking a Responsive Chord: How Campaign Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions. American Journal of Political Science 49(2): Althaus, Scott L Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Simon, Herbert Rationality as Process and as Product of Thought. In Daniel E. Bell, Howard Raiffa, and Amos Tversky (eds.) Decision Making: Descriptive, Normative, and Prescriptive Interactions. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press. Popkin, Samuel The Reasoning Voter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lau, Richard R. and David P. Redlawsk Advantages and Disadvantages of Cognitive Heuristics in Political Decision Making. AJPS 45 (4):

6 10/15 7. VALUES *Rokeach, Milton The Nature of Human Values. New York: Free Press. Chapter 1, 2, and 4. Tetlock, Philip E A Value Pluralism Model of Ideological Reasoning. J of Personality and Social Psychology 50 (4): Feldman, Stanley, and John R. Zaller The Political Culture of Ambivalence: Ideological Responses to the Welfare State. AJPS 36(1): Jacoby, William G Value Choices and American Public Opinion. AJPS 50 (3): Barker, David C. and James D. Tinnich III Competing Visions of Parental Roles and Ideological Constraint. APSR 100 (2): Roccas, Sonia, Shalom H. Schwartz, Adi Amit Personal Value Priorities and National Identification. PP 31 (3) Haidt, Jonathan and Jesse Graham When Morality Opposes Justice: Conservatives Have Moral Intuitions that Liberals May Not Recognize. Social Justice Research, 20, Leege, David C., Kenneth D. Wald, Brian S. Krueger, and Paul D. Mueller The Politics of Cultural Differences: Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period. Princeton. 10/22 8. RATIONALITY Chong, Dennis Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Mansbridge, Jane J. (ed) Beyond Self-Interest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 11/29 9. SOCIAL GROUPS, SOCIAL IDENTITY AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS *Campbell, Angus, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller and Donald Stokes The American Voter. New York: Wiley. Chapters 12 and 13 pp Conover, Pamela Johnston The Role of Social Groups in Political Thinking British Journal of Political Science 18: Miller, Arthur H., Patricia Gurin, Gerald Gurin and Oksana Malanchuk Group Consciousness and Political Participation. AJPS 25: *Philpot, Tasha, Ismail K. White, Kristin Wylie, and Ernest B. McGowen Feeling Different: Racial Group-Based Emotional Response to Political Events. In African-American Political Psychology: Identity, Opinion, and Action in the Post-Civil Rights Era, T. Philpot and I. White, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Kinder, Donald R. and Cindy D. Kam Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapters Intro, 1, 2, 3, 9, 11 Sigel, Roberta, Marilynn Brewer, Leonie Huddy, Marc Howard Ross, and Judith Gerson Symposium on Social Identity. PP : Tajfel, H. and J. C. Turner The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behaviour. in Psychology of Intergroup Relations, S. Worchell and W. G. Austin, Eds. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, pp Turner, John C., Penelope J. Oakes, S. Alexander Haslam and Craig McGarty Self and Collective: Cognition and Social Context. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 20:

7 11/5 10. RACIAL ATTITUDES *Sears, David O., John J. Jetts, Jim Sidanius, and Lawrence Bobo Race in American Politics. In Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America. Sears, Sidanius, and Bobo (eds.) *Kinder, Donald R. and Tali Mendelberg Individualism Reconsidered: Principles and Prejudice in Contemporary American Opinion. In Racialized Politics, *Sniderman, Paul M., Gretchen C. Crosby, and William G. Howell The Politics of Race. In Racialized Politics Tesler, Michael The Spillover of Racialization into Health Care: How President Obama Polarized Public Opinion by Racial Attitudes and Race. American Journal of Political Science 56(3): Winter, Nicholas J. G Beyond Welfare: Framing and the Racialization of White Opinion on Social Security. AJPS 50(2): Exchange on Racial Priming Mendelberg, Tali Executing Hortons: Racial Crime in the 1988 Presidential Campaign. Public Opinion Quarterly 61: Mendelberg, Tali Racial Priming Revived. PoP 6 (1): Huber, Gregory A. and John S. Lapinski Testing the Implicit-Explicit Model of Racialized Political Communication. PoP 6 (1): Mendelberg Racial Priming: Issues in Research Design and Interpretation PoP 6 (1): Brewer, Marilynn B. and Norman Miller Beyond the Contact Hypothesis: Theoretical Perspectives on Desegregation. in Miller and Brewer (eds.) Groups in Contact: The Psychology of Desegregation. Orlando: Academic Press. Devine, Patricia G Stereotypes and Prejudice: Their Automatic and Controlled Components. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 56(1): / MAKING SENSE OF POLITICS: POLITICAL UNDERSTANDING *Chong, Dennis Creating Common Frames of Reference on Political Issues. In Diana C. Mutz, Paul M. Sniderman and Richard A. Brody (eds.) Political Persuasion and Attitude Change. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press. *Gamson, William Media Discourse as a Framing Resource. In Ann N. Crigler (ed.) The Psychology of Political Communication. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, *Kuklinski, James H. and Norman L. Hurley It s a Matter of Interpretation. In Diana C. Mutz, Paul M. Sniderman, and Richard A. Brody, (eds.) Political Persuasion and Attitude Change. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Schlesinger, Mark and Richard R. Lau The Meaning and Measure of Policy Metaphors. APSR 94(3): *Walsh, Katherine Cramer Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chaps 4-6. Walsh, Katherine Cramer Putting Inequality In Its Place: Rural Consciousness and the Power of Perspective. American Political Science Review 106(3): Pennington, Nancy and Reid Hastie The Story Model of Juror Decision Making. In R. Hastie (ed.) Inside the Juror New York: Cambridge U Press. Houghton, David Patrick The Role of Analogical Reasoning in Novel Foreign-Policy Situations. British Journal of Political Science 4:

8 Delli Carpini, Michael X. and Bruce A. Williams Constructing Public Opinion: The Uses of Fictional and Nonfictional Television in Conversations about the Environment. In Ann N. Crigler (ed) The Psychology of Political Communication. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press Press, Andrea L. and Elizabeth R. Cole Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women. Chicago: U Chicago Press. 11/ APPROACHES TO PAYING ATTENTION TO CONTEXT Beck, Paul Allen, Russell J. Dalton, Steven Greene and Robert Huckfeldt, The Social Calculus of Voting: Interpersonal, Media, and Organizational Influences on Presidential Choices. APSR 2002: *Luker, Kristin Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. Berkeley: UC Press. Chapters 7 and 8. Campbell, David E. and Christina Wolbrecht See Jane Run: Women Politicians as Role Models for Adolescents. Journal of Politics 68(2): Soss, Joe Lessons of Welfare: Policy Design, Political Learning, and Political Action. American Political Science Review 93 (2): Junn, Jane and Natalie Masuoka Asian American Identity: Shared Racial Status and Political Context. Perspectives on Politics 6(4): Agnew, John A A Theory of Place and Politics. In Place and Politics: The Geographical Mediation of State and Society. Winchester, Mass.: Allen and Unwin, Inc., pp *Wong, Cara Imagined Gates and Neighbors. In Boundaries of Obligation: Geographic, National, and Racial Communities. Cambridge University Press Markus, Hazel Rose and Shinobu Kitayama Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion and Motivation. Psychological Review 98: MacKuen, Michael Political Context and Attitude Change. APSR 81: Davis, Mike City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of the City of Los Angeles. London: Verso. Chapters 4 and 5. Gaenslen, Fritz Culture and Decision Making in China, Japan, Russia and the United States. World Politics 39: Olsen, Laurie Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools. New York: New Press. Introduction and chapters 1, 2 and 3. 11/ SOCIAL CLASS AND POLITICAL INEQUALITY Solomon, Ellen R. and Victoria Steinitz Toward an Adequate Explanation of the Politics of Working-Class Youth. Political Psychology 1 (2): Walsh, Katherine Cramer, M. Kent Jennings and Laura Stoker The Effects of Social Class Identification on Participatory Orientations Toward Government. British Journal of Political Science 34: Gilens, Martin Inequality and Democratic Responsiveness. Public Opinion Quarterly 69(5): *Bartels, Larry The Eroding Minimum Wage, Economic Inequality and Political Representation and Unequal Democracy in Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. New York and Princeton: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press. McCall, Leslie and Lane Kenworthy Americans Social Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality. Perspectives on Politics 7(3): Stonecash, Jeffrey M Class and Party in American Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Lamont, Michèle The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. New York: Russell Sage/ Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. 8

9 Lareau, Annette Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth and The Power and Limits of Social Class. In Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. 12/3 14. CITIZENS CAPACITY FOR DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY Tali, Mendelberg The Deliberative Citizen: Theory and Evidence. Political Decision Making, Deliberation and Participation 6: Available at: *Kinder, Donald R. and Don Herzog Democratic Discussion in George E. Marcus and Russell L. Hanson (eds). Reconsidering the Democratic Public. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Press. Sanders, Lynn M Against Deliberation. Political Theory 25: Barabas, Jason How Deliberation Affects Policy Opinions. APSR 98(4): Gastil, John, Laura Black, E. Pierre Deess, and Jay Leighter From Group Member To Democratic Citizen: How Deliberating With Fellow Jurors Reshapes Civic Attitudes. Human Communication Research 34: Delli Carpini, Michael X., Fay Lomax Cook, and Lawrence R. Jacobs Public Deliberation, Discursive Participation, and Citizen Engagement: A Review of the Empirical Literature. Annual Review of Political Science 7: Eliasoph, Nina Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge U Press. Chapter 9. 12/ RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS ********FINAL PAPERS DUE by 5pm, Monday, December 16 th, by as Word documents (please no.pdf) ******* 9