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Party Polarization in America: The War Over Two Social Contracts

Autor B. Dan Wood, Soren Jordan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 aug 2017
This book develops a general explanation for party polarization in America from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Prior polarization studies focused exclusively on the modern era, but this work traces party polarization from the constitutional convention of 1787 to the present. Using such a broad historical perspective shows that what was unusual in American history was the period of low polarization from the Great Depression through 1980, rather than the period of high polarization of the modern era. Polarization is the norm of the American system, not the exception, and is likely to persist in the future. More theoretically, party polarization in America has been due to class-based conflict and rent-seeking by the patrician and plebian classes in various historical eras, rather than conflict over cultural values. As in earlier historical eras, modern party polarization has largely been elite-driven, with party entrepreneurs cunningly and strategically using polarization to their advantage.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107195929
ISBN-10: 1107195926
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 167 x 240 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Theoretical perspectives on party polarization in America; 2. Establishing the founders' social contract from the constitutional convention through George Washington; 3. The consequences of the founders' social contract from reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4. Forging the new deal social contract from the Great Depression through World War II; 5. The new deal social contract through the 1970s; 6. Polarization over the new deal social contract from the 1970s to present; 7. Are Americans ideologically polarized?; 8. Elite polarization and democratic representation; 9. Polarization as the norm of the American system.

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This book shows that party polarization in America is the norm, not the exception, and is rooted in class-based conflict characterizing all of American history.