Modern America is sharply polarized, battered by political furies, and divided as never before.
Fiorina, a political scientist at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution, is a calm and genial sort who regularly takes the national political temperature and finds it lukewarm.
His latest book, Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party-Sorting and Political Stalemate, is a corrective to the fear of national disintegration.
Democrats used to have a conservative wing, and some liberals inhabited the GOP. Today the most conservative Democrats in Congress are more liberal than the least conservative Republicans.
Most people are not very conservative or very liberal.
In 1939, Fiorina notes, "Similar political background" was ranked 18th among desirable traits in a marriage partner.
What gives us polarized politics is not the sentiments of the people but the two-party system.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/09/24/a-polarized-america-not-quite
Fiorina, a political scientist at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution, is a calm and genial sort who regularly takes the national political temperature and finds it lukewarm.
His latest book, Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party-Sorting and Political Stalemate, is a corrective to the fear of national disintegration.
Democrats used to have a conservative wing, and some liberals inhabited the GOP. Today the most conservative Democrats in Congress are more liberal than the least conservative Republicans.
Most people are not very conservative or very liberal.
In 1939, Fiorina notes, "Similar political background" was ranked 18th among desirable traits in a marriage partner.
What gives us polarized politics is not the sentiments of the people but the two-party system.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/09/24/a-polarized-america-not-quite
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