Angry politics : partisan hatred and political polarization among college students / Stacy G. Ulbig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulbig, Stacy G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College students--Political activity--United States.

College students.

College students--United States--Attitudes.

College environment--United States.

College environment.

Political socialization--United States.

Political socialization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2020]

Summary:

"Every day brings new evidence of the incivility of American politics. Animosity across party lines has risen to levels higher than any in modern memory and seems to reflect the conditions of the nation's early years. A distinctive feature of the current partisanship is the shift from issues-based polarization to one rooted in affect and emotion. People increasingly view the opposing party as close-minded, immoral, dishonest, and unintelligent. The new normal of what Stacy Ulbig calls partisan hatred in contemporary political discourse raises questions about who or what is driving this polarization and whether there are any prospects for depolarizing American society. Angry Politics explores these questions by examining the political incivility among the youngest segment of the electorate. The college years are the period when political attitudes are most likely to be mutable, and campuses have become increasingly combative in recent years. College students offer a chance to see where partisan hatred breeds, but also where partisan hatred might be stopped before attitudes harden in later years. While college students express much the same inter-partisan animus as the general American public, Ulbig concludes on a hopeful note by considering the important responsibility that colleges and universities hold for the development of citizens capable of engaging more productively in contentious debates about important issues"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Incivility and polarization

Affective polarization and social identities

Studying partisan hatred on the college campus

Who hates? : correlates of partisan hatred

Media messages and partisan hatred

The political consequences of partisan hatred

The social consequences of partisan hatred

A more civil political future?

Appendix: Measures and coding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7006-3023-6

OCLC:

1236367962