Campbell, James E.,  1952- <br/><br/>
Polarized :  making sense of a divided America / 
James E. Campbell. 
 - xiv, 313 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Preparing the Foundation. Knowns and unknowns -- History and theories -- The Polarized Electorate. Ideology and polarization -- Issues and polarization -- Circumstantial evidence -- The Polarized Parties. Why are the parties more polarized? -- One-sided party polarization? -- Why are the parties polarized at all? -- Polarization and democracy -- Appendices: Five ideological series ; Regression analyses of ideological orientations. 
<br/><br/> 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--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691172163 0691172161 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>40026274794 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Princeton Univ Pr, C/O Perseus Distribution 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301  SAN 631-760X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015047924 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Democratic Party USA <br/>Republican Party USA <br/>Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Polarization (Social sciences)--United States.<br/>Divided government--United States.<br/>Political culture--United States.<br/>Political participation--United States.<br/>Party affiliation--United States.<br/>Political parties--United States.<br/>Right and left (Political science)--United States.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Political Parties.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Ideologies--Democracy.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--General.<br/>Divided government.<br/>Party affiliation.<br/>Polarization (Social sciences)<br/>Political culture.<br/>Political participation.<br/>Political parties.<br/>Politics and government.<br/>Right and left (Political science)<br/>Gesellschaft<br/>Polarisierung<br/>Spaltung
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government.<br/>United States.<br/>United States.<br/>United States--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JK1726  / .C359 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.97309/051