How Polarization Begets Polarization - Ideological Extremism in the US Congress

How Polarization Begets Polarization: Ideological Extremism in the US Congress

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Samuel Merrill III (et al.) | 2024 | ISBN: 0197745237 | English | 200 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 13 MB
Offers an understanding of the often hidden causes of political phenomena
Extreme polarization in American politics--and especially in the U.S. Congress--is perhaps the most confounding political phenomenon of our time. This book binds together polarization in Congress and polarization in the electorate within an ever-expanding feedback loop. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties on their Congressional members and district candidates and endorsed by the voters in each Congressional district who must choose between the alternatives offered. These alternatives are just as extreme in competitive as in lop-sided districts. Tight national party discipline produces party delegations in Congress that are widely separated from one another but each ideologically narrowly distributed.