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020			_a9781476700366
082			_a306.20973 _bKLE
100			_aKlein, Ezra
245			_aWhy we're polarized
260			_bProfile Books _c2021 _aLondon :
300			_axxiii, 322 p.; _bill. B&W images _c20 cm
365			_b799.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aAmerica's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In Why We're Polarized, Ezra Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's deep political divisions, revealing how a system filled with rational, functional parts can combine into a dysfunctional whole. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump's rise to the Democratic Party's leftward shift to the politicisation of everyday culture. Klein shows how and why American politics polarised in the twentieth century, what that polarisation did to Americans' views of the world and one another, and how feedback loops between polarised political identities and polarised political institutions drive the system toward crisis. This revelatory book will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself.
650			_aUnited States
650			_aIdentity politics
650			_aPolarization (Social sciences)
650			_aRight and left (Political science)
650			_aCivil war
650			_aPolitical parties
650			_a African Americans
650			_aDemocratic Party
650			_a Republican Party
650			_aIdeological conservatives
650			_aLiberals
650			_aAmerican racial debates
650			_aEco chamber theory
650			_aGun control
650			_a Libertarian Party
650			_a Mega-identity politics
650			_aNegative partnership
650			_aPartisanship
650			_a Racial categories
650			_aSocial media
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