Polarized - Making Sense of a Divided America

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.

About the author

James E. Campbell
With a new afterword by the author

Summary

"With a new afterword by the author"--Title page.

Additional text

"I believe that Campbell has succeeded in proposing a new plotline about polarization that, as it develops and deepens over time, will prove to be the third major set of claims that scholars and pundits will need to address."---John H. Aldrich, Journal of Politics

Product details

• Authors: James E Campbell, James E. Campbell, Campbell James E.
• Assisted by: James E. Campbell (Afterword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780691180861
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18086-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political structure & processes, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Political structure and processes, Political parties and party platforms, Central government policies