POLI327

This course focuses on the construction of political reality through the deeper underlying psychological processes as they are applied to politics. Special attention is given to the constructing of reality through the news media (including the "manufacture of consent"), the creation and use of political enemies, the changing contemporary influence of religion on politics, leadership and the U.S. election process. Political psychology also focuses on questions of values and morality, human needs, and the political/psychological "facts" that stand in the center of our view of reality. This course includes mainly U.S. and Asian sources.