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The age of austerity : how scarcity will remake American politics
Provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years--and how citizens might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles.
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Race, Ideology, and the Polarization of America in the Age of the Obama Presidency
The author contends that the 2008 election of President Barack Obama and his subsequent 2012 re-election were viewed as transformative events that should lead America into a post-modern, post-racial, and post-ideological America. That idealized vision of America turned out to be the incorrect. With the shift in demography, coupled with white American conservatives and Republicans' fear of losing America to minorities, especially to Blacks, Obama's presidency failed to transform America into a post-racial nation. The author argues that America became more, rather than less, racially and ideologically polarized, exacerbated by identity politics between Liberals and Conservatives, as well as between Democrats and Republicans. The incompatible and ultimately unreconcilable perception of America made no room for effective collaboration between Obama and Republicans, and has led to subsequent problems and tensions.
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The parties versus the people : how to turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
A former congressman draws on his first-hand experience with legislative battles to present a solution-based, practical way to break the stranglehold of the political party system and banish the negative effects of partisan warfare.
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Ideology in America
Public opinion in the United States contains a paradox. The American public is symbolically conservative: it cherishes the symbols of conservatism and is more likely to identify as conservative than as liberal. Yet at the same time, it is operationally liberal, wanting government to do and spend more to solve a variety of social problems. This book focuses on understanding this contradiction. It argues that both facets of public opinion are real and lasting, not artifacts of the survey context or isolated to particular points in time. By exploring the ideological attitudes of the American public as a whole, and the seemingly conflicted choices of individual citizens, it explains the foundations of this paradox. The keys to understanding this large-scale contradiction, and to thinking about its consequences, are found in Americans' attitudes with respect to religion and culture and in the frames in which elite actors describe policy issues.
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The Dynamics of External Political Efficacy in the 2020 Kaohsiung and 2021 Busan Mayoral By-Elections
In 2020 and 2021, Taiwan and South Korea held mayoral by-elections in their second-largest cities of Kaohsiung and Busan. In both cases, the former regional ruling parties reclaimed control of their stronghold cities. How did voters perceive representative democracy during this unusual political era? An analysis of survey data reveals that while voters in Kaohsiung who supported the winning candidates were more likely to believe that the political process was responsive, this pattern did not hold in Busan. These varying results suggest that winning voters under a vertically divided government like that of Busan may be skeptical of local governance, a phenomenon which mediates the link between electoral success and satisfaction with democracy.
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Why Americans split their tickets
Why do some voters split their ballots, selecting a Republican for one office and a Democrat for another? Why do voters often choose one party to control the White House while the other controls the Congress? Citizens and politicians have been grappling with the consequences of such \"divided government\" for thirty years. In Why Americans Split their Tickets, Barry C. Burden and David C. Kimball address these fundamental puzzles of American elections. Burden and Kimball explain the causes of divided government and, rejecting the dominant explanations for split-ticket voting, they debunk the myth that voters prefer divided government to one-party control. Likewise, they make a case against interpreting the frequency of divided government as a mandate for compromise between the parties' extremist positions. Instead, the authors argue that ticket splitting and divided government are the unintentional results of lopsided campaigns and the blurring of party differences. In Why Americans Split their Tickets, Burden and Kimball use new quantitative methods to analyze the important changes in presidential, House, and Senate campaigns in the latter half of the twentieth century. Their approach explains the effects on voters' behavior of such developments as the rise of incumbency advantage and the increasing importance of money to campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s. The authors also observe that ticket splitting has declined in recent years. They link this emerging voting pattern to the sharpening policy differences between parties, illuminating the ways that ideological positions of candidates still matter in American elections.
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I, Citizen
This is a story of hope, but also of peril. It began when our nations polarized political class started conscripting everyday citizens into its culture war. From their commanding heights in political parties, media, academia, and government, these partisans have attacked one another for years, but increasingly theyve convincedeveryday Americans to join the fray. Why should we feel such animosity toward our fellow citizens, our neighbors, even our own kin? Because weve fallen for the false narrative, eagerly promoted by pundits on theLeft and theRight,that citizens who happen to vote Democrat or Republican are enthusiastic supporters of Team Blue or Team Red. Aside from a minority of party activists and partisans, however, most voters are simply trying to choose the lesser of two evils. The real threat to our union isnt Red vs.Blue America, its the quiet collusion within our nations political class to take away that most American of freedoms: our right to self-governance. Even as partisans work overtime to divide Americans against one another, theyve erected a system under which we ordinary citizens dont have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives. From foreign wars to how local libraries are run, authority no longer resides with We the People, but amongst unaccountable officials. The political class has stolen our birthright and set us at one anothers throats. This is the story of how that happened and what we can do about it. America stands at a precipice, but theres still time to reclaim authority over our lives and communities.
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