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008			160606s2016 njua b 001 0 eng
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050		4	_aJK1726 _b.C36 2016
100	1		_aCampbell, James E., _d1952-
245	1	0	_aPolarized : _bmaking sense of a divided America / _cJames E. Campbell
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2016]
300			_axiv, 313 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aPart 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 -- Appendix A. Five Ideological Series -- Appendix B. Regression Analyses of Ideological Orientations
520			_aMany 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. -- Provided by publisher
650		0	_aPolarization (Social sciences) _zUnited States
650		0	_aDivided government _zUnited States
650		0	_aPolitical culture _zUnited States
650		0	_aPolitical participation _zUnited States
650		0	_aParty affiliation _zUnited States
650		0	_aPolitical parties _zUnited States
650		0	_aRight and left (Political science) _zUnited States
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government
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