Polarized : making sense of a divided America
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Polarized : making sense of a divided America
Princeton University Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-308) and index
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内容説明
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.
目次
List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part One. Preparing the Foundation 13 Chapter 1. Knowns and Unknowns 15 Chapter 2. History and Theories 39 Part Two. The Polarized Electorate 59 Chapter 3. Ideology and Polarization 61 Chapter 4. Issues and Polarization 91 Chapter 5. Circumstantial Evidence 117 Part Three. The Polarized Parties 143 Chapter 6. Why Are the Parties More Polarized? 145 Chapter 7. One-Sided Party Polarization? 173 Chapter 8. Why Are the Parties Polarized at All? 197 Chapter 9. Polarization and Democracy 221 Appendix A. Five Ideological Series 247 Appendix B. Regression Analyses of Ideological Orientations 249 Notes 253 References 281 Index 309
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