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  • Partisan Hostility and American Democracy

    Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter

    by James N. Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matthew Levendusky ...
    An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity.For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function effectively. Now many fear that strong partisan views, particularly hostility to the opposing party, are damaging democracy. Is partisanship as dangerous as we fear it is?To provide an answer, this book offers a nuanced evaluation ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Partisan Media Polarize America

    by Matthew Levendusky ...
    Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable channels offering a partisan take. With partisan programs gaining in popularity, some argue that they are polarizing American politics, while others ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Partisan Sort

    How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans

    by Matthew Levendusky ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    As Washington elites drifted toward ideological poles over the past few decades, did ordinary Americans follow their lead? In The Partisan Sort, Matthew Levendusky reveals that we have responded to this trend—but not, for the most part, by becoming more extreme ourselves. While polarization has filtered down to a small minority of voters, it also has had the more significant effect of ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Our Common Bonds

    Using What Americans Share to Help Bridge the Partisan Divide

    by Matthew Levendusky ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A compelling exploration of concrete strategies to reduce partisan animosity by building on what Democrats and Republicans have in common.One of the defining features of twenty-first-century American politics is the rise of affective polarization: Americans increasingly not only disagree with those from the other party but distrust and dislike them as well. This has toxic downstream consequences ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Democracy amid Crises

    Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, and Persuasion

    by Matthew Levendusky, Josh Pasek, R. Lance Holbert, Andrew Renninger, Yotam Ophir, Dror Walter, Bruce Hardy, Kate Kenski, Daniel Romer, Ken Winneg, Kathleen Hall Jamieson ...
    A data-rich analysis of how the four inter-related crises of 2020 -- the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic collapse and K-shaped recovery, the clashes over the legacy of racism and policing, and assaults on the legitimacy of democratic institutions (abetted by conspiracy theories) -- shaped not only the 2020 election, but also the future of our democracy. The 2020 election cycle was one of the most ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Uncivil Agreement

    How Politics Became Our Identity

    by Lilliana Mason ...
    The psychology behind political partisanship: "The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself." —Ezra Klein, VoxPolitical polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • It Still Takes a Candidate

    Why Women Don't Run for Office, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox ...
    It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Changing Minds or Changing Channels?

    Partisan News in an Age of Choice

    by Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote—or mouse—we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choice? Partisan news has been roundly castigated for reinforcing prior beliefs and contributing to the highly polarized political environment we have today, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Dream and the Public Schools

    by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick ...
    The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Politics of Truth in Polarized America

    Edited by David C. Barker, Elizabeth Suhay ...
    In American politics, the truth is rapidly losing relevance. The public square is teeming with misinformation, conspiracy theories, cynicism, and hubris. Why has this happened? What does it mean? What can we do about it? In this volume, leading scholars offer multiple perspectives on these questions, and many more, to provide the first comprehensive empirical examination of the "politics of truth" ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Public Opinion

    by Carroll J. Glynn ...
    Public Opinion is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public opinion in the United States. Drawing on scholarship in political science, psychology, sociology, and communications, the authors explore the nature of political and social attitudes in the United States and how these attitudes are shaped by various institutions, with an emphasis on mass media. The book also serves as a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Two Moralities

    Conservatives, Liberals, and the Roots of Our Political Divide

    by Ronnie Janoff-Bulman ...
    The most complete picture to date of the moral worlds of the political left and right and how their different views relate to specific political issuesThe left and right will always have strong policy disagreements, but constructive debate and negotiation are not possible when each side demonizes the other. We need to move past our poisonous politics. In this book, social psychologist Ronnie ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook