Chapter 13: Historical Representations as Contributions to the Road Toward Actualized Democracy

The paper by Moghaddam deals with the very crucial issue of what type of psychological mechanisms are implied in the process of making democracy an actualized state of affairs and not only a formal political system. For this purpose the author uses an interdisciplinary approach trying to establish a real and meaningful dialogue with problems and issues, which come from several disciplines like social psychology, cognitive and cultural studies, political science and even historical explanations. I think it is really a fruitful strategy

Certainly knowledge from these diverse fields could be combined to generate more comprehensive explanations of present and past social and political phenomena.