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The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars (Chicago Studies in American Politics) - Tapa dura

O'Brian, Neil A.

 
9780226834542: The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
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ISBN 10: 0226834549 ISBN 13: 9780226834542
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2024

Sinopsis

A deeply researched account of how battles over civil rights in the 1960s shaped today’s partisan culture wars.

In the late twentieth century, gay rights, immigration, gun control, and abortion debates all burst onto the political scene, scrambling the parties and polarizing the electorate. Neil A. O’Brian traces the origins of today’s political divide on these issues to the 1960s when Democrats and Republicans split over civil rights. It was this partisan polarization over race, he argues, that subsequently shaped partisan fault lines on other culture war issues that persist to this day.

Using public opinion data dating to the 1930s, O’Brian shows that attitudes about civil rights were already linked with a range of other culture war beliefs decades before the parties split on these issues―and much earlier than previous scholarship realized. Challenging a common understanding of partisan polarization as an elite-led phenomenon, The Roots of Polarization argues politicians and interest groups, jockeying for power in the changing party system, seized on these preexisting connections in the mass public to build the parties’ contemporary coalitions.

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Neil A. O’Brian is assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2024
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226834549
ISBN 13 
9780226834542
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Tapa dura
Número de páginas
240
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