Personalizing Politics and Realizing Democracy

Gian Vittorio Caprara holds a Laurea degree in Political Science and a Specialization degree in Psychology, both from the Catholic University of Milan. He is full professor of Personality Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome, where he served as Chair of Department of Psychology, Dean of Faculty of Psychology and President of Federate Faculties of Arts, Law and Economics and Director of the Inter-University Center for the Research on the origin of prosocial and antisocial motivations. He has been visiting professor at University of Michigan, UCLA, UCI, Stanford University and Santiago University. He has been President of the European Association of Personality and is member of the Academia Europaea. He was NIAS Golestan fellow in 1996-1997 and fellow at SCAS in 2000-2001 and 2013-2014.Michele Vecchione holds a Laurea degree in Psychology from Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in Personality and Social Psychology from the University of Padua. He is associate professor of Psychometrics at the Department of Development and Social Psychology (Sapienza University of Rome) and junior research fellow at Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS). His main research interests focus on the application of multivariate statistics to diverse areas of psychology, with a special focus on personality assessment across multiple domains.

• PrefaceChapter 1: Personality and Politics in Contemporary DemocraciesChapter 2: Personality in PoliticsChapter 3: Moral Foundations of Political ActionChapter 4: Personal Determinants of Political DivideChapter 5: Diversities and Commonalities in Political AttitudesChapter 6: The Private and Public Personality of PoliticiansChapter 7: Political Participation and EfficacyChapter 8: A Congruency Model of Political Behavior (Preference and Participation)Concluding notesAbout the authors

This book is a masterful exposition of the influential role of personality factors in political behavior, providing unparalleled breadth and depth of analysis of intrapersonal determinants of democratic life in society." -Albert Bandura, David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology, Stanford University