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Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality.

The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization has been closely accompanied by fundamental social and economic changes—most notably, a parallel rise in income inequality. In this second edition of Polarized America, Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal use the latest data to examine the relationships of polarization, wealth disparity, immigration, and other forces. They find that inequality feeds directly into political polarization, and polarization in turn creates policies that further increase inequality.

Paul Krugman called the first edition of Polarized America “Important.... Essential reading for anyone who wan

Polarized America The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches WalrasPareto Lectures

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      Publisher MIT Press
      Published 2/26/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780262528627
      978-0262528627
      ISBN-10 0262528622
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      Political economy Religious and theocratic ideologies and movements

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Updated analysis of how the increasing polarization of American politics has been accompanied and accelerated by greater income inequality.

      The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization has been closely accompanied by fundamental social and economic changes—most notably, a parallel rise in income inequality. In this second edition of Polarized America, Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal use the latest data to examine the relationships of polarization, wealth disparity, immigration, and other forces. They find that inequality feeds directly into political polarization, and polarization in turn creates policies that further increase inequality.

      Paul Krugman called the first edition of Polarized America “Important.... Essential reading for anyone who wan

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