Party Polarization in America: The War Over Two Social Contracts

ISBN-13: 9781107195929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 388 str.

B. Dan Wood; Soren Jordan

Opis

This book shows that party polarization in America is the norm, not the exception, and is rooted in class-based conflict characterizing all of American history.

Spis treści

1. Theoretical perspectives on party polarization in America; 2. Establishing the founders' social contract from the constitutional convention through George Washington; 3. The consequences of the founders' social contract from reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4. Forging the new deal social contract from the Great Depression through World War II; 5. The new deal social contract through the 1970s; 6. Polarization over the new deal social contract from the 1970s to present; 7. Are Americans ideologically polarized?; 8. Elite polarization and democratic representation; 9. Polarization as the norm of the American system.