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Polarized - Making Sense of a Divided America (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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Polarized - Making Sense of a Divided America (Paperback, 2 Ed)
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An eye-opening look at how and why America has become so
politically polarized 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.
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