Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America 1st Edition

by Doug McAdam (Author), Karina Kloos (Author)

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By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to
the extreme inequality and savage partisan divisions of today?

In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that party politics alone is not responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. Instead, it was the ongoing interaction of social movements and parties that, over time, pushed Democrats
and Republicans toward their ideological margins, undermining the post-war consensus in the process. The Civil Rights struggle and the white backlash it provoked reintroduced the centrifugal force of social movements into American politics, ushering in an especially active and sustained period of
movement/party dynamism, culminating in today's tug of war between the Tea Party and Republican establishment for control of the GOP.

In Deeply Divided, McAdam and Kloos depart from established explanations of the conservative turn in the United States and trace the roots of political polarization and economic inequality back to the shifting racial geography of American politics in the 1960s. Angered by Lyndon Johnson's more
aggressive embrace of civil rights reform in 1964, Southern Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats for the first time in history, setting in motion a sustained regional realignment that would, in time, serve as the electoral foundation for a resurgent and increasingly more conservative Republican Party.
This revised and updated edition features new insights into the upcoming 2016 presidential election, including data from the latest polls, as well as reflections upon the results of the 2014 midterm elections.

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"This is a fascinating book on the politics of racial and social inequality in the United States, from the time of Mad Men until the Obama years. Power has turned upside down at the Oval office, but what happened at the bottom? A must-read." --Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First
Century

"Deeply Divided reveals in sharp relief how extreme inequality and unprecedented partisan polarization are threatening our democratic ideals and practices. Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos's insightful discussion of the roots of these developments and how they can be overcome deserves a wide audience."
--William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University

"In this timely book, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos masterfully illuminate the often neglected role that social movements of the left and right have played in replacing bipartisan politics of the 1950s with the rancorous divisions of the twenty-first century." --Nolan McCarty, Susan Dod Brown
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

"This thoughtfully provocative reading of transformations to American politics and society since the close of World War Two artfully weaves together issues, themes, and types of analysis too often kept apart. Placing race, social movements, and economic inequality front and center, Deeply Divided
develops a fresh and compelling analytical account of the origins, content, and dynamics of current democratic distempers." --Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

"McAdam and Kloos bring out the critical, but mostly ignored, role of the counterpoint between social movements and electoral politics responsible for major shifts in public policy since the beginning of the Republic--to the left and, more recently, to the right. This book is essential reading for
any who seek to understand the sources of political dysfunction gripping American government, especially the forces responsible for the battle within the Republican Party and the currents of anti-government policy in both parties." --Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard
Kennedy School

"This title is a fascinating and enlightening look at the contemporary political quagmire." --Library Journal

"Timely... McAdam and Kloos provide useful historical context for today's Capitol Hill." --Publishers Weekly

"Why have American politics become so partisan and fractious? What is the role of social movements in American politics? These questions drive this important book by the political
sociologists Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos. Exploring party politics since World War II, the authors link the issues of partisanship and social movements via a provocative thesis that challenges the way we write American political history"
--James N. Gregory, University of Washington, lThe Journal of American History

"Deeply Divided provides a powerful and timely analysis of the causes and consequences of growing political polarization and economic inequality...The study is a sweeping synthesis that weaves together scholarship by historians, economists, political scientists, and sociologists to provide a
sobering, insightful, and much-needed interpretation of our current political predicamentELMcAdam and Kloos make several important contributions to our understanding of U.S. politics. While many scholars have worked on pieces of the story, this book's synthetic narrative shows the historical
processes that have given rise to our highly unequal and polarized society."
--Kenneth Andrews, Contemporary Sociology

About the Author

Doug McAdam is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Karina Kloos is Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist, Landsea Rural Development Institute.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 1st edition (September 15, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 408 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199937850
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199937851
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.48 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.2 x 1.1 x 6.4 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,559,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,212 in Political Parties (Books)
- #1,548 in Government
- #1,851 in General Elections & Political Process

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Thomas Owen

LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT HOW WE GOT HERE

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2015

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This is a book that deserves a wide reading. The sheer amount of date, information, facts and graphs make it worth having on your shelf as a reference. Even if your disagree with the basic premise, you have to confront the facts of the matter: records of meetings, public statements by political leaders, congressional records, newspaper articles from the past . all of which tell the story of how the fringes of the parties have taken over the center. You might like it that way, but in these pages you will confront the results and more importantly, the reason why the extremes (mostly Republican, mostly pro-white, mostly pro-business) have so much power now. The story of what Reagan actually accomplished and what is now attributed to him, and what is promoted in his name. . . worth the price and the read. Interest in a healthy political atmosphere and process, and any claim to honesty will be rewarded by reading DEPLY DIVIDED.

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Sidney A. Simon

Greast read I will give it as holiday presents.

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2015

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I found the book full of factual and disturbing information about the origin and state of polarization in our political system.

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Connor Kloepfer

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2015

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Eye opening

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KahluaKat

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2017

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Great book!

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marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz, Ph.D.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2016

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It is for a gift, and don't intend to read it myself.

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Steven J Kurvink

Social Movements, Political Polarization and Economic Inequality

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2015

This is a fascinating book that should be of great interest to students of the American political economy as well as the general reader. The authors focus on the connection between social movements-of both the left and the right-political parties, political polarization, racial conflict and increasing economic inequality. Their central thesis seems to be that the origins of our current political divisions and the consequent disfunction of our government lie in the social movements of the 1960’s(particularly civil rights) and the continuing reactions to those movements. I do not agree with all of their conclusions, and in my view they downplay some significant factors, but the book is very well researched and quite readable. In the final chapter they offer some normative proposals for reform. Among the specific topics that they address are:
The civil rights movement including the black power movement
White resistance to the civil rights movement and the continuing white backlash
The emergence of grassroots conservatism in the early 1960’s
The defection of the Dixiecrats from the New Deal Coalition
The changes in delegate selection that altered the election of presidents
The conscious efforts of business to increase its political power(Powell Memo)
The decline of organized labor as a political and economic force
The ongoing impact of the “Reagan Revolution”
The rise of the religious right
The Tea Party and its impact on the Republican party
Divisions within the GOP(Movement conservatives v “moderate” conservatives)
The increasing intensity of racial divisions in the Obama years
The increased use of obstructionist tactics(particularly by the GOP) in Congress
Lots of data to document increasing inequality and political polarization

My only criticism is that they say relatively little about the second wave of feminism that emerged in the 1960’s. It would seem consistent with the author’s thesis to suggest that today’s politics have been influenced by the impact of and the reaction to feminism.
They also could have said more about the origins of today’s LGBT movement in the 1960’s.
Still, this is an excellent book, scholarly and accessible.

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tfarkas86

Enlightening on many levels

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2018

An excellent historical review of political polarization in the US since the New Deal with special attention to the role of race and social movements on the left and right. A well-written, pretty-quick read that will leave you anxious to get to work fixing our democracy.

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