Radical American Partisanship : Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy

Nathan P. Kalmoe

ISBN 10: 0226820262 / ISBN 13: 9780226820262

Edité par The University Of Chicago Press Mai 2022, 2022

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Neuware - 'On January 6 we witnessed what many of us consider a failed insurrection at the US Capitol. But others think this was political violence in service of the preservation of our democracy. When did our political views become extreme When did guns and violence become a feature of American politics Nathan Kalmoe and Lily Mason have been researching the increase in radical partisanship in American politics and the associated increasing propensity to support or engage in violence through a series of surveys and survey experiments for several years. Kalmoe and Mason argue that many Americans have become increasingly radical in their identification with their political party and more inclined to view partisans of the other party negatively as people. Their reactions to opposing political views give little room for respect or compromise and make increasing numbers of Americans more likely to either participate in political violence or to view those who do so on behalf of their party favorably. They also find that radical partisans are more apt to be receptive to messages from radical political leaders and less receptive to conflicting information and views. Radical partisanship and political violence are not new to the United States. In most of the 20th century we experienced less radical partisanship, with measures of attitudes towards partisans of other parties that were not as extreme as we see now but this has not been the case throughout much of American history, as witness the fight over slavery that led to the Civil War as well as the violence associated with racism after the fall of reconstruction to the present day'.

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• Titre: Radical American Partisanship : Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy
• Éditeur: The University Of Chicago Press Mai 2022
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226820262
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226820262
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 159 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 159 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 474 grammes

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Synopsis

Radical partisanship among ordinary Americans is rising, and it poses grave risks for the prospects of American democracy.

Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse earlier in the nation's history. The January 6, 2021 insurrection and the partisan responses that ensued are a vivid illustration of how deep these currents run. How did American politics become so divided that we cannot agree on how to categorize an attack on our own Capitol?

For over four years, through a series of surveys and experiments, Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason have been studying radicalism among ordinary American partisans. In this groundbreaking book, they draw on new evidence--as well as insights from history, psychology, and political science--to put our present partisan fractiousness in context and to explain broad patterns of political and social change. Early chapters reveal the scope of the problem, who radical partisans are, and trends over time, while later chapters identify the conditions that partisans say justify violence and test how elections, political violence, and messages from leaders enflame or pacify radical views. Kalmoe and Mason find that ordinary partisanship is far more dangerous than pundits and scholars have recognized. However, these findings are not a forecast of inevitable doom; the current climate also brings opportunities to confront democratic threats head-on and to create a more inclusive politics. Timely and thought-provoking, Radical American Partisanship is vital reading for understanding our current political landscape.

À propos des auteurs

Nathan P. Kalmoe is associate professor of political communication in Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication and Department of Political Science. He is the author of With Ballots & Bullets: Partisanship & Violence in the American Civil War and co-author of Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the Mass Public.

Lilliana Mason is associate research professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University's SNF Agora Institute and Department of Political Science. She is author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.