Deeply divided : racial politics and social movements in Post-War America / Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAdam, Doug, author.

Kloos, Karina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Political parties--United States.

Political parties.

Divided government--United States.

Divided government.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the postwar period to the extreme inequality and partisan divisions of today? In this sweeping look at American politics, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that the rise of social movements, from Civil Rights to the Tea Party, have pushed Republicans and Democrats away from the center and toward the fringes.

Contents:

How did we get into this mess?

Postwar America: bipartisan consensus, the median voter, and the absence of social movements

The center will not hold: the 1960s and the shifting racial geography of American politics

The strange, consequential seventies

The Reagan revolution?

The slow-release revolution: 1988-2008

The Obama years: uncivil war

Restoring American democracy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 08, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-939426-1

0-19-993786-9

OCLC:

885208546