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What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?
James R.L. Noland
- pp 99-117
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In What's the Matter with Kansas as mentioned in this paper, Frank investigates how a situation came to be, and in so doing to diagnose it properly, in order to prescribe an appropriate course of action.Abstract:
In What’s the Matter with Kansas? Thomas Frank engages in just the sort of historical inquiry that interests me. In this book Frank responds to a situation he finds curious by attempting to understand how it came to be, and in so doing to diagnose it properly. This is historical inquiry not simply for its own sake but for the sake of understanding the present in order to prescribe an appropriate course of action. Here we see an important example of how the naming of the present is really an interpretation of the past. We also see, therefore, how the method of historical inquiry one uses to interpret the past also shapes one’s reaction to the present and one’s expectations about the future.read more
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Political Polarization in the American Public
TL;DR: For more than two decades political scientists have discussed rising elite polarization in the United States, but the study of mass polarization did not receive comparable attention until fairly recently as mentioned in this paper, concluding that much of the evidence presented problems of inference that render conclusions problematic.
Journal ArticleDOI
A New Partisan Voter
Joseph Bafumi,Robert Y. Shapiro +1 more
TL;DR: The American electorate today is different from that described in The American Voter as discussed by the authors, and this is visible in the strength of partisan voting, the relationship between partisanship and ideology, and the relationship of partisanship with self-reported liberal-conservative ideology to public's economic, social, racial, and religious attitudes and opinions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think
Jacob Westfall,Tal Yarkoni +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that error rates are highest—in some cases approaching 100%—when sample sizes are large and reliability is moderate, and SEM-based statistical approaches that appropriately control the Type I error rate when attempting to establish incremental validity are reviewed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Understanding White Polarization in the 2016 Vote for President: The Sobering Role of Racism and Sexism
TL;DR: The 2016 presidential election witnessed the largest gap between the presidential vote preferences of college-educated and non-college-educated whites since 1980 as mentioned in this paper, while Donald Trump enjoyed just a fourpoint margin over Hillary Clinton among whites with a college degree (10 points less than Mitt Romney's margin over Barack Obama among that group in 2012).
Journal ArticleDOI
The Political Legacy of American Slavery
TL;DR: This paper found that whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks.