ISBN:
0190465174
,
9780190465179
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 401 Seiten
,
Diagramme, Karten
,
24 cm
Edition:
Revised and updated edition, first issued as an Oxford University Press paperback
DDC:
320.973
Keywords:
Democracy
;
Equality
;
Political parties
;
Divided government
;
United States Politics and government
;
United States Social conditions
;
USA
;
Demokratie
;
Gleichheit
;
Soziale Bewegung
Abstract:
In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that party politics alone is not responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. Instead, it was the ongoing interaction of social movements and parties that, over time, pushed Democrats and Republicans toward their ideological margins, undermining the post-war consensus in the process ... In Deeply Divided, McAdam and Kloos depart from established explanations of the conservative turn in the United States and trace the roots of political polarization and economic inequality back to the shifting racial geography of American politics in the 1960s
Description / Table of Contents:
How did we get into this mess?Postwar America: bipartisan consensus, the median voter, and the absence of social movements -- The center will not hold: the 1960s and the shifting racial geography of American politics -- The strange, consequential seventies -- The Reagan revolution? -- The slow-release revolution: 1988-2008 -- The Obama years: uncivil war -- Restoring American democracy.
Note:
Includes bibliography (pages 373-389) and index
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