Lilliana Mason

Uncivil Agreement (eBook, ePUB)

How Politics Became Our Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, Vox Political 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 is polarization rooted in social identity, and it is growing. The campaign and election of Donald Trump laid bare this fact of the American electorate, its successful rhetoric of "us versus them" tapping into a powerful current of anger and resentment. With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties. She argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, they tend to view one other with distrust and to work for party victory over all else. Although the polarizing effects of social divisions have simplified our electoral choices and increased political engagement, they have not been a force that is, on balance, helpful for American democracy. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly "social" type of polarization, and adds much to our understanding of contemporary politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 191
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226524689
• Artikelnr.: 52710844

Autorenporträt

Lilliana Mason is assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.