Polarized (eBook)

Making Sense of a Divided America

James E. Campbell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8927-3 (ISBN)

Infos

An eye-opening look at how and why America has become so politically polarizedMany 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.

Autor

James E. Campbell is UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.3.2018
• Nachwort: James E. Campbell
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b/w illus., 23 tables
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: activism • Advocacy • americans • barack obama • bipartisanship • Bowdoin College • Calculation • Centre-left politics • Centre-right politics • centrism • circumstantial evidence • communism • conservative democrat • Conservative Party (UK) • Counterculture • CQ Press • culture war • Dealignment • Determination • Donald Trump • Dummy variable (statistics) • Election • Electoral College (United States) • Exit poll • Extremism • far-right politics • General Election • George W. Bush • Government • Graduate school • Hillary Clinton • Hippie • Ideology • incumbent • John McCain • Larry Sabato • left-wing politics • Legislation • Liberal conservatism • Liberalism • Louisiana State University • macropartisanship • majority • Major party • Measurement • median voter theorem • Midterm election • Minor party • moderate • Multi-Party System • National Science Foundation • national security • New Deal coalition • Newt Gingrich • Nomination • Nomination contest • Norman Ornstein • Observational error • obstacle • On the Issues • Opposition Party • party discipline • Party Identification • Party leader • Party System • percentage • Percentage point • Political Campaign • Political Party • Political Philosophy • political spectrum • Politician • Politics • politics of the united states • Public Opinion • Public Policy • Realigning election • rebuttal • Republican Party (United States) • Respondent • right-wing politics • Rockefeller Republican • Ronald Reagan • social issue • Split-ticket voting • standard deviation • syracuse university • Tax • The American Voter • The Federalist Papers • The Public Interest • Tom Mann • two-party system • Unemployment • Voter turnout • Voting • Walter Lippmann • What Happened • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8927-8 / 1400889278
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8927-3 / 9781400889273