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Neither Liberal nor Conservative - Ideological Innocence in the American Public (Paperback)
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Neither Liberal nor Conservative - Ideological Innocence in the American Public (Paperback)
Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics
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Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties
are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War.
Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from
terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending,
to immigration and gay marriage. Well, American elites disagree
fiercely. But average Americans do not. This, at least, was the
position staked out by Philip Converse in his famous essay on
belief systems, which drew on surveys carried out during the
Eisenhower Era to conclude that most Americans were innocent of
ideology. In Neither Liberal nor Conservative, Donald Kinder and
Nathan Kalmoe argue that ideological innocence applies nearly as
well to the current state of American public opinion. Real liberals
and real conservatives are found in impressive numbers only among
those who are deeply engaged in political life. The ideological
battles between American political elites show up as scattered
skirmishes in the general public, if they show up at all. If
ideology is out of reach for all but a few who are deeply and
seriously engaged in political life, how do Americans decide whom
to elect president; whether affirmative action is good or bad?
Kinder and Kalmoe offer a persuasive group-centered answer.
Political preferences arise less from ideological differences than
from the attachments and antagonisms of group life.
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