TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campbell,James E.
AU  - Campbell,James E.
TI  - Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America 
SN  - 9780691180861
AV  - JK1726 .C359 2018
U1  - 320.97309/051 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Divided government
KW  - United States
KW  - Party affiliation
KW  - Polarization (Social sciences)
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Right and left (Political science)
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Activism
KW  - Advocacy
KW  - Americans
KW  - Barack Obama
KW  - Bipartisanship
KW  - Bowdoin College
KW  - CQ Press
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Centre-left politics
KW  - Centre-right politics
KW  - Centrism
KW  - Circumstantial evidence
KW  - Communism
KW  - Conservative Democrat
KW  - Conservative Party (UK)
KW  - Counterculture
KW  - Culture war
KW  - Dealignment
KW  - Determination
KW  - Donald Trump
KW  - Dummy variable (statistics)
KW  - Election
KW  - Electoral College (United States)
KW  - Exit poll
KW  - Extremism
KW  - Far-right politics
KW  - General election
KW  - George W. Bush
KW  - Government
KW  - Graduate school
KW  - Hillary Clinton
KW  - Hippie
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Incumbent
KW  - John McCain
KW  - Larry Sabato
KW  - Left-wing politics
KW  - Legislation
KW  - Liberal conservatism
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Louisiana State University
KW  - Macropartisanship
KW  - Major party
KW  - Majority
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Median voter theorem
KW  - Midterm election
KW  - Minor party
KW  - Moderate
KW  - Multi-party system
KW  - National Science Foundation
KW  - National security
KW  - New Deal coalition
KW  - Newt Gingrich
KW  - Nomination contest
KW  - Nomination
KW  - Norman Ornstein
KW  - Observational error
KW  - Obstacle
KW  - On the Issues
KW  - Opposition Party
KW  - Party discipline
KW  - Party identification
KW  - Party leader
KW  - Party system
KW  - Percentage point
KW  - Percentage
KW  - Political campaign
KW  - Political party
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Political spectrum
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics of the United States
KW  - Politics
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Public policy
KW  - Realigning election
KW  - Rebuttal
KW  - Republican Party (United States)
KW  - Respondent
KW  - Right-wing politics
KW  - Rockefeller Republican
KW  - Ronald Reagan
KW  - Social issue
KW  - Split-ticket voting
KW  - Standard deviation
KW  - Syracuse University
KW  - Tax
KW  - The American Voter
KW  - The Federalist Papers
KW  - The Public Interest
KW  - Tom Mann
KW  - Two-party system
KW  - Unemployment
KW  - Voter turnout
KW  - Voting
KW  - Walter Lippmann
KW  - What Happened
KW  - World War II
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES AND TABLES --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part One. Preparing the Foundation --; Chapter 1. Knowns and Unknowns --; Chapter 2. History and Theories --; Part Two. The Polarized Electorate --; Chapter 3. Ideology and Polarization --; Chapter 4. Issues and Polarization --; Chapter 5. Circumstantial Evidence --; Part Three. The Polarized Parties --; Chapter 6. Why Are the Parties More Polarized? --; Chapter 7. One- Sided Party Polarization? --; Chapter 8. Why Are the Parties Polarized at All? --; Chapter 9. Polarization and Democracy --; Afterword --; Appendix A. Five Ideological Series --; Appendix B. Regression Analyses of Ideological Orientations --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400889273?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400889273
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400889273/original
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