Great Alignment : Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump / Alan I. Abramowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abramowitz, Alan I., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

Trump, Donald.

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

Polarization (Social sciences)--United States.

Polarization (Social sciences).

Identity politics--United States.

Identity politics.

Political parties--United States.

Political parties.

Divided government--United States.

Divided government.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

United States.

United States--Social conditiond--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for the view that our current political divide is not confined to a small group of elites and activists but a key feature of the American social and cultural landscape. The polarization of the political and media elites, he argues, arose and persists because it accurately reflects the state of American society. Here, he goes further: the polarization is unique in modern U.S. history. Today's party divide reflects an unprecedented alignment of many different divides: racial and ethnic, religious, ideological, and geographic. Abramowitz shows how the partisan alignment arose out of the breakup of the old New Deal coalition; introduces the most important difference between our current era and past eras, the rise of "negative partisanship"; explains how this phenomenon paved the way for the Trump presidency; and examines why our polarization could even grow deeper. This statistically based analysis shows that racial anxiety is by far a better predictor of support for Donald Trump than any other factor, including economic discontent.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

One. A New Age of Partisanship

Two. The Decline of the New Deal Coalition, 1952-1988

Three. From Dealignment to Alignment

Four. The Changing Political Geography of the United States

Five. The New American Electorate

Six. White Racial Resentment and the Rise of Donald Trump

Seven. Negative Partisanship and the Triumph of Trump

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-23512-7

OCLC:

1041140153