Polarized, making sense of a divided America, James E. Campbell
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Label
Polarized, making sense of a divided America, James E. Campbell
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Polarized
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
951413738
Responsibility statement
James E. Campbell
Sub title
making sense of a divided America
Summary
Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened. Polarized presents commonsense benchmarks to measure polarization, draws data from a wide range of historical sources, and carefully assesses the quality of the evidence. Through an innovative and insightful use of circumstantial evidence, it provides a much-needed reality check to claims about polarization. This rigorous yet engaging and accessible book examines how polarization displaced pluralism and how this affected American democracy and civil society. Polarized challenges the widely held belief that polarization is the product of party and media elites, revealing instead how the American public in the 1960s set in motion the increase of polarization. American politics became highly polarized from the bottom up, not the top down, and this began much earlier than often thought. The Democrats and the Republicans are now ideologically distant from each other and about equally distant from the political center. Polarized also explains why the parties are polarized at all, despite their battle for the decisive median voter. No subject is more central to understanding American politics than political polarization, and no other book offers a more in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the subject than this one--Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Preparing the Foundation. Knowns and unknowns -- History and theories -- The Polarized Electorate. Ideology and polarization -- Issues and polarization -- Circumstantial evidence -- The Polarized Parties. Why are the parties more polarized? -- One-sided party polarization? -- Why are the parties polarized at all? -- Polarization and democracy -- Appendices: Five ideological series ; Regression analyses of ideological orientations
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Making sense of a divided America
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- Political participation
- Spaltung
- Gesellschaft
- Democratic Party
- Politics and government
- Right and left (Political science)
- Political culture -- United States
- Party affiliation -- United States
- Polarization (Social sciences)
- Political parties -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Political Process + Political Parties
- Divided government
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- Right and left (Political science) -- United States
- Polarisierung
- Political participation -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Political Ideologies + Democracy
- Divided government -- United States
- 89.57 political participation
- Republican Party
- Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States
- United States
- Political culture
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Public Policy + General
- Party affiliation
- Political parties
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- Political participation
- Spaltung
- Gesellschaft
- Democratic Party
- Politics and government
- Right and left (Political science)
- Political culture -- United States
- Party affiliation -- United States
- Polarization (Social sciences)
- Political parties -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Political Process + Political Parties
- Divided government
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- Right and left (Political science) -- United States
- Polarisierung
- Political participation -- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Political Ideologies + Democracy
- Divided government -- United States
- 89.57 political participation
- Republican Party
- Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States
- United States
- Political culture
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