The Resource Why we're polarized, Ezra Klein
Why we're polarized, Ezra Klein
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- ""America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us -- and how we are polarizing it -- with disastrous results. "The American political system -- which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president -- is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face," writes political analyst Ezra Klein. "We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole." In Why We're Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the twentieth century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. This is a revelatory book that will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself."--
- America's political system isn't broken: it's working exactly as designed. But Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us-- and how we are polarizing it-- with disastrous results. In examining the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction, he shows that everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Now our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. -- adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 312 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: What didn't happen
- How Democrats became liberals and Republicans became conservatives
- The Dixiecrat dilemma
- Your brain on groups
- The press secretary in your mind
- Demographic threat
- Interlude
- The media divide beyond left-right
- Post-persuasion elections
- When bipartisanship becomes irrational
- The difference between Democrats and Republicans
- Managing polarization-- and ourselves
- Isbn
- 9781476700328
- Label
- Why we're polarized
- Title
- Why we're polarized
- Statement of responsibility
- Ezra Klein
- Title variation
- Why we are polarized
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- ""America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us -- and how we are polarizing it -- with disastrous results. "The American political system -- which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president -- is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face," writes political analyst Ezra Klein. "We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole." In Why We're Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the twentieth century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. This is a revelatory book that will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself."--
- America's political system isn't broken: it's working exactly as designed. But Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us-- and how we are polarizing it-- with disastrous results. In examining the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction, he shows that everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Now our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. -- adapted from jacket
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Klein, Ezra
- Dewey number
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- 306.20973
- 320.973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HN90.P57
- LC item number
- K54 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Polarization (Social sciences)
- Right and left (Political science)
- Identity politics
- Political culture
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National
- HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
- Label
- Why we're polarized, Ezra Klein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: What didn't happen -- How Democrats became liberals and Republicans became conservatives -- The Dixiecrat dilemma -- Your brain on groups -- The press secretary in your mind -- Demographic threat -- Interlude -- The media divide beyond left-right -- Post-persuasion elections -- When bipartisanship becomes irrational -- The difference between Democrats and Republicans -- Managing polarization-- and ourselves
- Control code
- on1135867397
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 312 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476700328
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1135867397
- Label
- Why we're polarized, Ezra Klein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-296) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: What didn't happen -- How Democrats became liberals and Republicans became conservatives -- The Dixiecrat dilemma -- Your brain on groups -- The press secretary in your mind -- Demographic threat -- Interlude -- The media divide beyond left-right -- Post-persuasion elections -- When bipartisanship becomes irrational -- The difference between Democrats and Republicans -- Managing polarization-- and ourselves
- Control code
- on1135867397
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 312 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476700328
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1135867397
Subject
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
- HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
- Political culture -- United States
- Right and left (Political science)
- Polarization (Social sciences)
- Identity politics -- United States
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