Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity

Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties, and argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly "social" type of polarization in American politics and will add much to our understanding of contemporary politics. READ MORE>