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What Happened to the Vital Center? - Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,925
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What Happened to the Vital Center? - Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America (Hardcover): Nicholas...

What Happened to the Vital Center? - Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America (Hardcover)

Nicholas Jacobs, Sidney Milkis

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Taking the reader through a long view of American history, What Happened to the Vital Center? offers a novel and important contribution to the ongoing scholarly and popular discussion of how America fell apart and what might be done to end the Cold Civil War that fractures the country and weakens the national resolve. In What Happened to the Vital Center?, Nicholas Jacobs and Sidney Milkis tackle a foundational question within American political history: Is current partisan polarization, aggravated by populist disdain for constitutional principles and institutions, a novel development in American politics? Populism is not a new threat to the country's democratic experiment, but now insurgents intrude directly on elections and government. During previous periods of populist unrest, the US was governed by resilient parties that moderated extremist currents within the political system. This began to crumble during the 1960s, as anti-institutionalist incursions into the Democratic and Republican organizations gave rise to reforms that empowered activists at the expense of the median voter and shifted the controlling power over parties to the executive branch. Gradually, the moderating influence that parties played in structuring campaigns and the policy process eroded to the point where extreme polarization dominated and decision-making power migrated to the presidency. Weakened parties were increasingly dominated by presidents and their partnerships with social activists, leading to a gridlocked system characterized by the politics of demonization and demagoguery. Executive-centered parties more easily ignore the sorts of moderating voices that had prevailed in an earlier era. While the Republican Party is more susceptible to the dangers of populism than the Democrats, both parties are animated by a presidency-led, movement-centered vision of democracy. After tracing this history, the authors dismiss calls to return to some bygone era. Rather, the final section highlights the ways in which the two parties can be revitalized as institutions of collective responsibility that can transform personal ambition and rancorous partisanship into principled conflict over the profound issues that now divide the country. The book will transform our understanding of how we ended up in our current state of extreme polarization and what we can do to fix it.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2022
Authors: Nicholas Jacobs (Visiting Assistant Professor of Government) • Sidney Milkis (White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics)
Dimensions: 240 x 160 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-760351-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Political control & influence > Public opinion & polls
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LSN: 0-19-760351-3
Barcode: 9780197603512

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