Political Psychology: Concepts, Meaning, Significance and History

Abstract

Indian democracy is considered to be the largest democracy in the world. This study is done keeping in mind the intellectual boundaries between Political science and Psychology. Political psychology is an advanced scientific study of traits of human nature underlying political actions, and of the processes that in reality constitute government. It encompasses the behaviors like terrorism, act of voting, raise voice anti human well beings, in force to government to make policies for human development. Historical background: Although some men, such as Harold Lasswell, were studying the modern influence of psychology on politics before the 1920s, political psychology courses did not appear at any university until the early 1970s. An attempt has been made in this research paper to present briefly what is the importance of political psychology today.