Robert Lieberman, Kenneth Roberts, and David Bateman on Democratic Resilience and Political Polarization in the United States
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Did the Polarization of American Politics Begin With the People?
Sase reader, well, rob, it's been a little while, but i'm excited to have you on the podcast again. The last time that we talked about the four threats, and how we had all these four threats were converging in american politics. But when we talked the underlying threat, the one that exasperated all of them, was really polarization. It's very hard to sort out where polarization started. Is this a bottom up phenomeno, nor as is a top down phenomenon? One of the things that we're trying to do in this book is to bring toge scholars who focus on different dimensions of polarization.
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