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About the Author
Nathan P. Kalmoe is associate professor of political communication in Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication and Department of Political Science. He is the author of With Ballots & Bullets: Partisanship & Violence in the American Civil War and coauthor of Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the Mass Public. Lilliana Mason is associate research professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University's SNF Agora Institute and Department of Political Science. She is author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.
Reviews
"The book makes an important contribution to the growing body of research on what may be becoming the most pressing issue in contemporary American politics: political polarization." * Choice *
"Kalmoe and Mason's impressive theoretical insights and evidence on the causes and consequences of radical partisanship make their book the definitive account of violent partisan hostilities in twenty-first-century American politics. With the profound implications of those outstanding analyses exposed for the whole world to see during the January 6 Capitol insurrection, Radical American Partisanship has the potential to be one of the most important political science books in decades." -- Michael Tesler, University of California, Irvine
"This provocative book by two of political science's rising stars asks readers to consider what only recently would have seemed implausible. Is American democracy on the brink? Will the kind of political violence that most Americans connect to remote outposts in other parts of the world become a feature of our own deeply polarized political system? Readers will find themselves deeply unsettled by Kalmoe and Mason's evidence and conclusions." -- Marc J. Hetherington, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"A disturbing analysis of special interest to policymakers." * Kirkus *
Book Information
ISBN 9780226820286
Author Nathan P. Kalmoe
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press