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Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
Written by Lilliana Mason
Narrated by Rebecca Gibel
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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.
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.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Overall I appreciate the insights of the author. It helped me understand some underlying trends that got us here. Two things I did not like about the audio book. One is your can't see the graphs and figures which reduces your ability to keep track of the arguments. Two is the book gives a lot of empirical evidence on how we have gotten more polarized because our social identities have become more closely aligned with our partisan identity but doesn't really answer the big questions why, especially why now. The last chapter on what to do about the problem reads mostly like a purely theoretical discussion.
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