Private Politics: A Study Of Five Political Outlooks
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Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What drives a person's deepest political convictions — reason, experience, or something far more intimate and psychological? Private Politics: A Study of Five Political Outlooks by A. F. Davies presents a penetrating inquiry into the psychological underpinnings of political belief, arguing that individual temperament, personal history, and unconscious motivation shape political ideology as profoundly as any rational deliberation. Drawing on five distinct case studies, Davies constructs a nuanced portrait of how private psychology intersects with public political life, revealing the hidden architecture behind why people commit to the ideologies they do. As Reader in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Davies brings a rare interdisciplinary authority to his subject, bridging political science and psychology with analytical precision and intellectual rigour. The work stands as a significant contribution to the Australian tradition of empirical political thought, situating itself within broader mid-twentieth-century debates about the nature of ideology and individual agency. For anyone who has wondered why political conviction so often feels more like identity than opinion, Davies' quietly provocative analysis offers an answer that is as unsettling as it is illuminating.
Author: A. F. Davies
Format: Hardback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What drives a person's deepest political convictions — reason, experience, or something far more intimate and psychological? Private Politics: A Study of Five Political Outlooks by A. F. Davies presents a penetrating inquiry into the psychological underpinnings of political belief, arguing that individual temperament, personal history, and unconscious motivation shape political ideology as profoundly as any rational deliberation. Drawing on five distinct case studies, Davies constructs a nuanced portrait of how private psychology intersects with public political life, revealing the hidden architecture behind why people commit to the ideologies they do. As Reader in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, Davies brings a rare interdisciplinary authority to his subject, bridging political science and psychology with analytical precision and intellectual rigour. The work stands as a significant contribution to the Australian tradition of empirical political thought, situating itself within broader mid-twentieth-century debates about the nature of ideology and individual agency. For anyone who has wondered why political conviction so often feels more like identity than opinion, Davies' quietly provocative analysis offers an answer that is as unsettling as it is illuminating.