Polarized America The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches

Name: Polarized America The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
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ISBN: 9780262633611

ISBN-10: 0262633612

ISBN-13: 9780262633611

Edition: 2008

Authors: Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal

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The idea of America as politically polarized--that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states--has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization in recent decades has been closely accompanied by fundamental social and economic changes--most notably, a parallel rise in income inequality. In Polarized America, Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal examine the relationships of polarization, wealth disparity, immigration, and other forces, characterizing it as a dance of give and take and back and forth causality. Using NOMINATE (a quantitative procedure that, like interest group ratings, scores politicians on the…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748



Acknowledgments



The Choreography of American Politics



Polarized Politicians



Income Polarization and the Electorate



Immigration, Income, and the Voter's Incentive to Redistribute



Campaign Finance and Polarization



Polarization and Public Policy



Where Have You Gone, Mr. Sam


Notes


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