La Psicología Política, veinte a os después. Nuevas tendencias en Espa a

The scientific investigation on the connec-tions of psychology and politics doesn't appear in Spain until the second half of XX century. This field of the Spanish psycholo-gy between the 1970s and 1980s tried to become a new discipline and professional field. In 1990s the first Spanish journal of Political Psychology appeared. This article describes the significant trends of the Politi-cal Psychology in Spain in the last years twenty -based on the empirical analysis of the publications journal′s. The obtained results reveal a focus change in classic topics and the emergence of new political topics. It has diminished the interest for the institutional aspects of the democracies and it has increased the concern for the policy's civic vision. The Spanish political psychol-ogists share characteristic fundamentally with the European and North American political psychologists, but they maintain styles characteristic of their origin places in what they worry as well as in the form in that they investigate.