Neither Liberal nor Conservative Kinder Donald R.
Neither Liberal nor Conservative Kinder Donald R. Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to…
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Neither Liberal nor Conservative Kinder Donald R.
Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage.Well, American elites disagree fiercely. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War.
This, at least, was the position staked out by Philip Converse in his famous essay on belief systems, which drew on surveys carried out during the Eisenhower Era to conclude that most Americans were innocent of ideology. But average Americans do not. In Neither Liberal nor Conservative, Donald Kinder andNathan Kalmoe argue that ideological innocence applies nearly as well to the current state of American public opinion.
Real liberals and real conservatives are found in impressive numbers only among those who are deeply