Tuesday, March 23, 2010

POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE - OBAMA AT THE MIDTERM

PAPER DEADLINE DECEMBER 31, 2010
ANTICIPATED PUBLICATION LATE 2011/EARLY 2012

January 20, 2011 will mark the middle of President Barack Obama’s 4-year term. Much has been written in the popular press about his historic election, and what having an African-American president means in the United States. As we reach the middle of Obama’s 4-year term, Political Psychology invites papers for a Special Issue on Obama at the Midterm. Papers may take any one of a number of political psychological perspectives on Obama and the Obama administration, including, but not limited to, assessments of Obama himself and his role as President, policy maker, the impact of the Obama administration on domestic or foreign policy, perspectives on America’s role in the world under this administration, examination of elite or mass perceptions of Obama from abroad, public opinion (both American and international), and the impact of the Presidency of Obama on issues of race and ethnicity.

Papers should be no longer than 6000 – 8000 words and must be submitted through the journal’s online submission process at
https://www.journalmanager.org/polpsych/public/check_cos.php

As with all submissions to Political Psychology, papers will be evaluated for scholarly rigor, innovation, international perspective and potential impact on the field through our standard peer review process.

Prof. David Redlawsk, Editor of the Special Issue on Obama at the Midterm for Political
Psychology

Alex Mintz, Editor-in-Chief, Political Psychology
Paul 't Hart, Helen Haste, David Redlawsk, James Sidanius—co-editors;
Eran Halperin and Steven Redd—Associate editors

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Welcome!

Welcome to our new blog. The Political Communication sections of the ICA and APSA have instituted this blog to help facilitate communication within the scholarly political communication community. We hope you will see this is an opportunity to offer exchanges on current topics in political communication, share research, stimulate theories, announce conference and publication opportunities, and generally engage each other in interactive, direct communication.

Because this enterprise is still new to us, we're open to your recommendations about how to improve the blog for more effective use by our respective sections. Feel free to contact Maegan Stephens, the section blogger, with any suggestions you may have.

Sincerely,

Richard Davis (Chair, APSA) and Kevin Barnhurst (Division Head, ICA)