Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason
Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason
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Uncivil Agreement
How Politics Became Our Identity

Author: Lilliana Mason

Narrator: Rebecca Gibel

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/12/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Political polarization in America is at an all–time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization rooted in social identity, and it is growing. The campaign and election of Donald Trump laid bare this fact of the American electorate, its successful rhetoric of "us versus them" tapping into a powerful current of anger and resentment.

With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties. She argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, they tend to view one other with distrust and to work for party victory over all else. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly "social" type of polarization in American politics and will add much to our understanding of contemporary politics.

About Lilliana Mason

Lilliana Mason is assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

I'm sure most thinking people have realized that this "us vs. them" mindset we call two-party politics in the US has little to do with Democratic or Republican platforms or stances on any real issues. For many proudly self-identifying liberals and conservatives, it's tribalism not so different from......more

Goodreads review by George

Together with The Big Sort and Why We’re So Polarized, this is indispensable reading for understanding what is happening to our country. This provides an outstanding summary of research about why partisan politics is so broken. Highly recommended. We have a great deal of work to do to fix the proble......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

I guess this book disappointed me in a few ways, but here's the argument: Americans are being sorted not just ideologically but socially. This means that we increasingly have mega-identities: if you know someone is evangelical, for instance, you know they are almost certainly a Republican, whereas s......more