具体描述
“The American political system—which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president—is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein. “We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole.”
In Why We’re Polarized, Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture.
America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together.
Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the twentieth century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis.
This is a revelatory book that will change how you look at politics, and perhaps at yourself.
用户评价
##“点”有点少啊，相当的啰嗦。看评论说后半比前半还要差，算了，弃读
评分##could/should be a podcast
评分##后面看着好捉急…
评分##因为走得匆忙且行李已经超重 就临时在香港随手买了本书（不得不说香港的外文书的确是贵）断断续续在隔离和旅行中看完了 interesting facts and insights（虽然现在也不太记得啥了）能看出作者是想尽量以中立客观的态度讨论polarization的 然而还是免不了时不时展现出来的对民主党的inclination 如果一个sophisticated political journalist都无法避免自己的倾向的话 it says something, isn’t it
评分##作者是Vox创始人和编辑 ，信息量比较大，新观点比较少，reader discretion is advised。
评分##行吧
评分##The Ezra Klein Show的听众表示书中旁征博引非常informative，但后半部分略显拖沓，并且结尾似乎有点乐观过了头？（来自大选前夕过分关注时事的焦虑读者）
评分##适合作为American political polarization入门读物。跳读，理论与解释视角都是老生常谈的内容，里面的一些例子可以用于课堂教学。另外，Klein作为一个记者，能够写出这样informative的书，已经很难得了。
评分##作者是Vox创始人和编辑 ，信息量比较大，新观点比较少，reader discretion is advised。
