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Party Polarization in America - The War Over Two Social Contracts (Hardcover)
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Party Polarization in America - The War Over Two Social Contracts (Hardcover)
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This book develops a general explanation for party polarization in
America from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Prior
polarization studies focused exclusively on the modern era, but
this work traces party polarization from the constitutional
convention of 1787 to the present. Using such a broad historical
perspective shows that what was unusual in American history was the
period of low polarization from the Great Depression through 1980,
rather than the period of high polarization of the modern era.
Polarization is the norm of the American system, not the exception,
and is likely to persist in the future. More theoretically, party
polarization in America has been due to class-based conflict and
rent-seeking by the patrician and plebian classes in various
historical eras, rather than conflict over cultural values. As in
earlier historical eras, modern party polarization has largely been
elite-driven, with party entrepreneurs cunningly and strategically
using polarization to their advantage.
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