Awards
- Commended for Choice 's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 2016
Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: James E. Campbell ,
James E. Campbell
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.595kg
ISBN: 9780691172163
ISBN 10: 0691172161
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 26 July 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9781400889273
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Temporarily unavailable
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Language: English
Reviews
An excellent book on this contested and ... polarizing ... topic. --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 An excellent book on this contested and ... polarizing ... topic. --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Campbell has written a well-researched, highly provocative volume on American political polarization, which challenges a great deal of conventional wisdom on the subject. --Choice
An excellent book on this contested and ... polarizing ... topic. --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution Campbell has written a well-researched, highly provocative volume on American political polarization, which challenges a great deal of conventional wisdom on the subject. --Choice
Author Information
James E. Campbell is UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His books include The American Campaign: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote and The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections.
