Road to Actualized Democracy

Brady Wagoner, Aalborg UniversityIgnacio Bresco de Luna, Aalborg UniversityVlad Glaveanu, Webster University Geneva

• Who's Afraid of Democracy? Vlad Glaveanu, Brady Wagoner, and Ignacio Brescó.Part I. Niels Bohr Lecture.Chapter 1. The Road to Actualized Democracy: A Psychological Exploration; Fathali M. Moghaddam.Part II. Transitions To And From Democracy.Chapter 2. Building Group Norms and Group Identities Into the Study of Transitions From Democracy to Dictatorship and Back Again; Winnifred R. Louis, Gi K. Chonu, Tulsi Achia, Cassandra M. Chapman, and Joshua Rhee.Chapter 3. Looking for Happiness, Finding Economic Growth: The Chilean Transition to Democracy; David Carré.Chapter 4. Democratic Revolutions? Insights on Social Stability and Social Change From Psychology and Politics; Lucas B. Mazur and Siri Neset.Chapter 5. On Social Memory, Paradoxes of Opinion, and the Democratic Competence of Citizens; Cristian Tileagă.Part III. Conflict In Democracy.Chapter 6. Alternating Dominance: Social Categorization, Group Formation, and the Problem of Borders; Gordon Sammut.Chapter 7. Actual Democracy and a United Europe of States: A Case Study of Austerity and Protest in the Republic of Ireland; Séamus A. Power.Chapter 8. Ideology and Actualized Democracy: Allies or Enemies? Sandra Obradović.Chapter 9. Cultural Psychology and Politics: Otherness, Democracy, and the Refugee Crisis; Constance de Saint Laurent and Vlad Glaveanu.Part IV. The Democratic Citizen.Chapter 10. The Perfect Psytizen: Sociohistorical Debts and the Limits of Psychology as Engineering for Democracy; Jorge Castro Tejerina and Marcos José Bernal Marcos.Chapter 11. Nurturing Democratic Citizens: A Commitment for Psychology? Alberto Rosa and María Fernanda González.Chapter 12. Educating for Democracy: Entrepreneurship Education as a Democratic Discipline? Steffen Ernø.Chapter 13. Historical Representations as Contributions to the Road Toward Actualized Democracy; Mario Carretero.Part V. Concluding Response.Chapter 14. Psychology as a Science of Human Plasticity; Fathali M. Moghaddam.About the Contributors.