The Polarization of Contemporary American Politics
The Polarization of Contemporary American Politics
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DOI：
10.1057/pol.2014.10
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
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通讯作者：
Poole, Keith T.
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作者：
Hare, Christopher;Poole, Keith T.
美国的政治精英两极分化严重。民主党和共和党的两极分化比内战结束以来的任何时候都要高。本文描述了现代两极分化趋势是如何产生的，以及它对大众政治行为和公共政策结果的影响。我们认为，必须从两党的意识形态分歧和冲突的自由-保守维度扩展到美国社会中更广泛的一系列社会和文化冲突来理解当代政治两极分化。我们最后的猜测是，共和党在精英和大众层面上，在自由-保守维度上已经变得更加四分五裂。
Political elites of the United States are deeply polarized. Polarization of the Democratic and Republican Parties is higher than at any time since the end of the Civil War. This essay describes how the modem polarization trend emerged and its implications for mass political behavior and public policy outcomes. We contend that contemporary political polarization must be understood in terms of both the ideological divergence of the parties and the expansion of the liberal-conservative dimension of conflict to a wider set of social and cultural conflicts in American society. We close with the speculation that the Republican Party has become the more fractured of the parties along the liberal-conservative dimension at both the elite and mass level.