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"How Democracies Endure: The Challenges of Polarization and Sources of Resilience Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Kenneth M. Roberts Politics in the United States has become more polarized in recent decades, as both political elites and everyday citizens have been divided into rival a...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"How Democracies Endure: The Challenges of Polarization and Sources of Resilience Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Kenneth M. Roberts Politics in the United States has become more polarized in recent decades, as both political elites and everyday citizens have been divided into rival and mutually antagonistic partisan camps. Increasingly, these rival camps question the political legitimacy and democratic commitments of the other side. Such polarization or "teamsmanship" can have a number of important political consequences: it can drive actors further apart, intensify political conflict, impede negotiation and compromise, and block the construction of bipartisan legislative and policymaking coalitions.Since polarization makes it difficult, if not impossible, to find common political ground, it can prevent democratic institutions from making important policy choices and responding to the critical issues of the day. Polarization, in short, can easily lead to democratic gridlock, paralysis, the decay of rights, and, in the extreme, violent conflict, as the Trump administration's waning weeks so vividly demonstrated"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108834100 1108834108 9781108995641 1108995640 |
| Index Number: | JK1726 |
| CLC: | D771.22 |
| Call Number: | D771.22/D383 |
| Contents: | How democracies endure : the challenges of polarization and sources of resilience / Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Kenneth M. Roberts -- Polarization and the durability of Madisonian checks and balances : a developmental analysis / Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler -- Pernicious polarization and democratic resilience : analyzing the United States in comparative perspective / Jennifer McCoy and Murat Somer -- Crosscutting cleavages, political institutions, and democratic resilience in the United States / Frances E. Lee -- Unilateralism unleashed? Polarization and the politics of executive action / Douglas L. Kriner -- Court-packing and democratic erosion / Thomas M. Keck -- The social roots, risks, and rewards of mass polarization / Lilliana Mason and Nathan P. Kalmoe -- The great white hope : threat and racial resilience in Trump's America / Christopher Sebastian Parker and Matt A. Barreto -- The religious sort : the causes and consequences of the religiosity gap in America / Michele F. Margolis -- Weaponized group identities and the health of democracy : why the National Rifle Association is good at democracy but bad for it / Matthew J. Lacombe -- Polarization, the administrative state, and executive-centered partisanship / Desmond King and Sidney M. Milkis -- Laboratories of what? American federalism and the politics of democratic subversion / Philip Rocco -- Conservative extra-party coalitions and statehouse democracy / Alexander Hertel-Fernandez -- Elections, polarization, and democratic resilience / David A. Bateman -- Citizen organizing and partisan polarization from the Tea Party to the anti-Trump resistance / Theda Skocpol, Caroline Tervo, and Kirsten Walters. |