POL SCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Mitch Mcconnell, Robert A. Dahl, Elitism
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Trump (march): 75% (gop= 86%; dems= 11%) Polarization as an unfolding process: triggers, intensifiers . The proposition that two-party competition produces convergent politics wherein the parties make overlapping appeals in an effort to capture the center served as a kind of master theory" for american political scientists for most of the 20th century . More educated and active citizens have sorted most completely their attitudes have also become more polarized over time. The american public appears to be increasingly divided into two groups: the politically engaged, who view politics in ideological terms, and the politically disengaged, who do not. Gerrymandering the favorite explanation of pundits: but polarization increases between redistricting efforts, and polarization grows in the senate as well. Geographic sorting (democrats are crowded inefficiently into urban. Barbara lee wins with 85-90% of the vote. Polarization has grown a lot even in competitive districts? (dw-nominate gap is . 86; in a neutral district it is . 69)
