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Klein, Ezra.
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Klein, Ezra.
Political science
Polarization (Social sciences)
Right and left (Political science)
Identity politics -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
MARC Display
Why we're polarized / Ezra Klein.
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Klein, Ezra.
Avid Reader Press, 2020.
Call #:
320.973 K642w
Subjects
Political science
Polarization (Social sciences)
Right and left (Political science)
Identity politics -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
ISBN:
9781476700328
Alternate title:
Why we are polarized
Edition:
1st Avid Reader Press hardcover ed.
Description:
xxiii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: What didn't happen -- How Democrats became liberals and Republicans became conservatives -- The Dixiecrat dilemma -- Your brain on groups -- The press secretary in your mind -- Demographic threat -- Interlude -- The media divide beyond left-right -- Post-persuasion elections -- When bipartisanship becomes irrational -- The difference between Democrats and Republicans -- Managing polarization-- and ourselves.
Summary:
""America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us -- and how we are polarizing it -- with disastrous results. "The American political system -- which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president -- is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face," writes political analyst Ezra Klein. "We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole." In Why We're Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the twentieth century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. "--From publisher.
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