120 Pages
by
Central European University Press
We have politics on our mind—or, rather, we have politics in different parts of our brains. In this path-breaking study, Matt Qvortrup takes the reader on a whistle stop tour through the fascinating, and sometimes frightening, world of neuropolitics; the discipline that combines neuroscience and politics, and is even being used to win elections.
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Foreword Barbara J. Sahakian Preface: The Brain in Political Research Introduction: The State of Neuropolitics Chapter One: The Brain: A Philosophical and Historical Introduction Chapter Two: The Neuropolitics of Us and Them Chapter Three: Social Neuroscience, Political Attitudes, and Election Campaigns Chapter Four: The Listening Brain: The State We Ought to Be In Epilogue: Inconclusive, Scientific Postscript, Notes, Subject Index Name, Index.
Biography
Matt Qvortrup is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Coventry University. He studied human biology before gaining a doctorate in politics at the University of Oxford. A recognized expert on political behavior, he presented the BBC program “The Political Brain” on BBC Radio 4 and is co-founder of the company NeuropoliticsAndMarketing.com.
