Shawn W. RosenbergProfessor, Political Science Director, Graduate Program in Political Psychology |
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Research Interests |
Political Psychology, Deliberative Democracy, Ideology, Social Theory, Social and Development Psychology | |
| URL | Book order: The Not So Common Sense, Yale Univ. Press (paperback version, 2006) | |
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Academic Distinctions |
1990 Amer.Association of Univ.& College Libraries - Outstanding Academic Book Award 1988 International Society of Political Psychology - Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Achievement |
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| Appointments |
Visiting Professor, Dept of Political Science, Leiden University, Netherlands Visiting Fellow,University Center for Human Values, Princeton University Visiting Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow, Progam in Political Psychology, Yale University |
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Research Abstract |
Professor Rosenberg is interested in political cognition, communication and alternative democratic practices. His approach to these questions reflects his background in psychology and political sociology and his training in empirical research and theoretical inquiry. In his research Professor Rosenberg pursues three related fields. First, he has a general theoretical interest in the relation between the individual and society in the explanation of political phenomena. He has written on the conflict between sociological and psychological explanations of behavior and the need for a theoretical foundation for a social psychology of political life. Second, he has dealt with problems of conceptualization and empirical methodology. At various points he has critiqued the literatures on public opinion, political socialization, public choice and deliberative democracy. Third, he has been interested in the various ways in which psychological research can inform the study of political behavior. In this context, he has done research applying psychological methods to the analysis of candidate image formation, the ideological development of mass publics, and international relations. With several of his graduate students, Professor Rosenberg is now doing research on the relationship between cognition, communication and democracy. This involves both experimental research on democratic deliberation and a reconsideration of deliberative democratic theory. Professor Rosenberg has served as Chair of the Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Section and as a Program Chair and a Member of the Governing Council of the International Society of Politial Psychology. Professor Rosenberg teaches courses on political psychology, social psychology, democratic theory and contemporary social and political theory. |
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| Publications | Deliberation, Participation and Democracy: Can the People Decide? (Editor) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 | |
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The Not So Common Sense: How People Judge Social and Political Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. (Paperback version 2006 - available at http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300122160 ) |
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| Reason, Ideology and Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. | ||
| Political Reasoning and Cognition, (with D. Ward and S. Chilton). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988. | ||
| "Rethinking Democratic Deliberation: The Limits and Potential of Citizen Participation" Polity (2007) 39: 335-360. | ||
| "The Empirical Study of Deliberative Democracy: Setting a Research Agenda" Acta Politica (2005) 40:212-224. | ||
| "Theorizing Political Psychology: Doing Integrative Social Science under the Condition of Postmodernity" Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, December 2003, pp.427-460 | ||
| "Against Neo-Classical Political Economy: A Political Psychological Critique," Political Psychology, 1995, pp.251-280 | ||
| "The Structure of Political Thinking," American Journal of Political Science, 1988, pp539-566. | ||
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Professional Societies |
American Political Science Association
International Society of Political Psychology |
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| Other Experience |
Social Science Advisory Board, California Commission on Teacher Credentialing 2001—2002 |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2469 | |
| Last updated | 10/08/2007 | |