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Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America (Great Questions in Politics Series) (2nd Edition) (Great Questions in Politics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.20973
EAN: 9780321366061
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0321366069
Label: Longman
Manufacturer: Longman
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: November 19, 2005
Publisher: Longman
Studio: Longman
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Editorial Review:Part of the "Great Questions in Politics" series, Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America combines polling data with a compelling narrative to debunk commonly-believed myths about American politics–particularly the claim that Americans are deeply divided in their fundamental political views. This second edition of Culture War? features a new chapter that demonstrates how the elections of 2004 reinforce the book’s argument that Americans are no more divided now than they were in the past. In addition, the text has been updated throughout to reflect data from the 2004 elections.
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Rating:  - A must read for life the modern voter.
This book was an assignment for my political science class, and I started it believing, as most do, that America was a deeply divided nation of red and blue states. However, this book brilliantly shattered my views by just giving me the data without too much political rhetoric behind it.
While some reviewers believe the author is a demonstrably biased "red-stater" I think that regardless of whether or not this is the case, it is irrelevant to the overall integrity of the book which ... Read More
Rating:  - Culture War
It is a little hard to believe that our nation is not polarized; this book has the evidence to prove that wrong. It consists of evidence, such as graphs and charts, to prove that our country is not as polarized as the media makes it out to be. This book uses different polls, like the Gallup polls, to show that America is not greatly divided. The author argues that our nation is not divided between red and blue, but today has more of a centrist view. The author even uses key issues, like abortion ... Read More
Rating:  - Misleading
He works for the Hoover Institute...some of the findings seemed interpreted accordingly. The book didn't offer that much new that other political scientists haven't noted in the last decade. Party activists and other elites are more likely to be polarized. Aw, yeah! We learn that in Poli 100--American Politics. Correction, we teach that in the courses, when we talk about political participation. Right.
That said, this book is written primarily for laypeople or folks of the authors' ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent political science model
The three political scientists advance an analysis that the American public is far less polarized than politicians and the media. Early in the book, they explain that both polarized and moderate electorates can produce very close elections. Close elections are thus not a measure of polarization. A polarized electorate's distribution would have a peak-valley-peak shape resembling a large V. Meanwhile, a moderate electorate would have a standard Bell curve distribution. Based on their data analysis, ... Read More
Rating:  - Blue America would like to think there's no brewing war
As a statistician who did their dissertation on large data sets of longitudinal culture differences- I find the authors data sets biased and her conclusions misleading.
The only thing I haven't been surprised about is that here in "red america" there hasn't been armed conflict.
-Reagon called us- red america- a sea of Shining Blue but somehow the MSM managed to switch the terms. I guess being called red is a little to close to the bone for people like Markos Mousalitas- who represents ... Read More
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