Partisan Sort How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans

Name: Partisan Sort How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans
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ISBN: 9780226473659

ISBN-10: 0226473651

ISBN-13: 9780226473659

Edition: 2009

Authors: Matthew Levendusky

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As Washington elites drifted toward ideological poles over the past few decades, did ordinary Americans follow their lead? InThe Partisan Sort, Matthew Levendusky reveals that we have responded to this trendbut not, for the most part, by becoming more extreme ourselves. While polarization has filtered down to a small minority of voters, it also has had the more significant effect of reconfiguring the way we sort ourselves into political parties. In a marked realignment since the 1970swhen partisan affiliation did not depend on ideology and both major parties had strong liberal and conservative factionsliberals today overwhelmingly identify with Democrats, as conservatives do with…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


Acknowledgments



The Transformation of the American Electorate



Why Voters Sort



Have Voters Sorted?



Testing Competing Explanations for Sorting



Untangling the Causes of Sorting



How Voters Sort



The Impact of the Sorted


Appendix Data Used


Notes


Bibliography


Index