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Uncivil Agreement - by Lilliana Mason (Paperback)

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  • A powerful analysis of the causes of America's dangerously polarized politics Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy.
  • About the Author: Lilliana Mason is assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
  • 192 Pages
  • Political Science, Political Ideologies

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A powerful analysis of the causes of America's dangerously polarized politics

Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization rooted in social identity, and it is growing. The campaign and election of Donald Trump laid bare this fact of the American electorate, its successful rhetoric of "us versus them" tapping into a powerful current of anger and resentment.

With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties. She argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, they tend to view one other with distrust and to work for party victory over all else. Although the polarizing effects of social divisions have simplified our electoral choices and increased political engagement, they have not been a force that is, on balance, helpful for American democracy. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly "social" type of polarization in American politics and will add much to our understanding of contemporary politics.



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"Uncivil Agreement opens a window to a better understanding of the 'why' behind the polarization of contemporary American politics. This is a groundbreaking book, combining an interesting and important theoretical approach with strong empirical data, and it will have real impact."­--David P. Redlawsk, University of Delaware

"A must-read for anyone trying to understand the increasingly polarized nature of American politics. Mason offers a psychological identity-based explanation for today's polarized politics, an explanation that provides insights both into its most important attitudinal and behavioral consequences, but also into possible approaches that could help move the American public a few steps back from the precipice."--Richard R. Lau, Rutgers University

"Recent debates about partisan polarization have focused primarily on ideology and policy views. In Uncivil Agreement, social identity moves to the center of how to think about the differences that divide the country."
-- "New Books Network"

"The mutual disdain felt by Democrats and Republicans around the country has reached toxic levels, and it is having profound consequences for the quality of our policies, not just our politics. How did we get here? Mason's brilliantly designed research and compelling writing reveal the most convincing explanation to date."--Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan

"Mason describes social polarization in the USA and its political parties, a sorting that generated distinct psychological and behavioural outcomes. Americans have sorted into politically partisan (party support, based on ideology and policy positions) groups and social (racial, religious, geographic, ideological) groups. Because of social sorting, greater polarization of both parties has occurred. This polarization has generated greater partisan prejudice, more political action and more emotionality (reactivity). Her book explains how a well-sorted set of partisan and social identities, a phenomenon beginning in the 1950s and well underway before Obama was elected, is uniquely capable of motivating three polarizations--more partisan, more action and more emotion."--Eleanor D. Glor "The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal"

"Highly recommended. . . . In describing American politics today, Mason argues that partisan identity (Democrat or Republican) has become a 'mega-identity' because it increasingly combines a number of different identities. . . . And which party people belong to is important because there is some evidence that instead of people choosing their party affiliation based on their political views (and changing parties if their views are no longer represented by that party), they shift their views to align with their party identity."--Perry Bacon Jr. "538"

"One of the most important books this year . . . . This is the kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself."--Ezra Klein "Vox"

"Sobering. . . . Mason argues that factors such as class, race, religion, gender, and sexuality used to cut across one another to a significant extent. . . . In the past decades, though, 'partisan, ideological, religious, and racial identities have moved into strong alignment. . . . A single vote can now indicate a person's partisan preference as well as his or her religion, race, ethnicity, gender, neighborhood and favorite grocery store.'"--Yascha Mounk "New Yorker"



About the Author



Lilliana Mason is assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .65 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: Political Ideologies
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Theme: Conservatism & Liberalism
Format: Paperback
Author: Lilliana Mason
Language: English
Street Date: April 16, 2018
TCIN: 1006094991
UPC: 9780226524542
Item Number (DPCI): 247-37-4284
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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