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
##信息量好大
评分##废话太多了……好浪费时间噢
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##信息量好大
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##polarization总比维持老不死们的homogeneity好 so maybe it’s kind of must have stage until entering the new world. Educations really is political power.
评分##后面看着好捉急…
评分##polarization总比维持老不死们的homogeneity好 so maybe it’s kind of must have stage until entering the new world. Educations really is political power.
评分##could/should be a podcast
