Among elected officials, journalists, and average citizens, intensifying partisan polarization is thought to be one of the dominant political trends of our times. Yet it has proved remarkably controversial among political scientists. Some dimensions of polarization are not in question. For the first time in modern history (and maybe ever), there is no ideological overlap betwee (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
Continental Divide
The Disappearing CenterEngaged Citizens, Polarization, and American DemocracyAlan I. AbramowitzYale University Press, $35, 194 pp.
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