The Culture of Blame and Payback in American Democracy looks at the forces that have developed over the past 50-plus years and created a dysfunctional political system in the United States. It argues that the current level of partisan polarization is actually the culmination of a number of forces at work during the past few decades. These include a perception by each party that the other is using unfair political tactics, the subsequent creation of a culture of blame with each party blaming the other for the dysfunction, a decline in political norms leading to childlike behavior by...
The Culture of Blame and Payback in American Democracy looks at the forces that have developed over the past 50-plus years and created a dysfunctional...
