POLSCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Realistic Conflict Theory, Abortion-Rights Movements, Exaggeration
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3 perspectives on partisan polarization in today"s us. Popular social science which is based on bishop"s book. Academic social science critique of bill bishop"s book. The big sort was about financial crash of 2008 and 2009. The big sort is about partisan polarization in the us. Partisan polarization is a big topic in this year"s topic. Some researchers think that we are now more polarized than we"ve ever been. For this we have had an arguable choice among candidates who are really far apart. Trump and clinton is pretty far apart but not as far as sanders. Our elections are posing an extremely stark question to us. This election is furthering or encouraging polarization by presenting candidates so far apart. What is polarization: major ideological positions become farther apart. There is a growing hazard between the opposite parties: more and more spread apart. Unwillingness to compromise and intolerance of the other side.
