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The Roots of Polarization: From the Racial Realignment to the Culture Wars

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Availability:In StockContributor:Neil A. O'BrianSeries:Chicago Studies in American PoliticsPublish date:2024-09-25Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226834566ISBN-10:226834565UPC:9780226834566Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Political Process, Civil Rights, AnthropologyBook Topic:Political Parties, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC0XZDJ142

A deeply researched account of how battles over civil rights in the 1960s shaped today's partisan culture wars.

In the late twentieth century, gay rights, immigration, gun control, and abortion debates all burst onto the political scene, scrambling the parties and polarizing the electorate. Neil A. O'Brian traces the origins of today's political divide on these issues to the 1960s when Democrats and Republicans split over civil rights. It was this partisan polarization over race, he argues, that subsequently shaped partisan fault lines on other culture war issues that persist to this day.

Using public opinion data dating to the 1930s, O'Brian shows that attitudes about civil rights were already linked with a range of other culture war beliefs decades before the parties split on these issues--and much earlier than previous scholarship realized. Challenging a common understanding of partisan polarization as an elite-led phenomenon, The Roots of Polarization argues politicians and interest groups, jockeying for power in the changing party system, seized on these preexisting connections in the mass public to build the parties' contemporary coalitions.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226834566ISBN-10:226834565UPC:9780226834566Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Political Process, Civil Rights, AnthropologyBook Topic:Political Parties, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC0XZDJ142
Neil A. O'Brian is assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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