Why We're Polarized
Book description
A BARACK OBAMA AND A BILL GATES SUMMER READING PICK 2022
A NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
'This book helped me understand modern politics better' - Bill Gates, Summer Reading Pick 2022
'Superbly researched and written' - Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post
'It's been a long time…
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Why read it?
2 authors picked Why We're Polarized as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I am a huge fan of people who can translate vast amounts of research findings in a way that’s engaging, accessible, and accurate. I’m also a fan of people who don’t waste our time by shying away from hard truths, like the fact that America’s polarization problem is largely about race or that our polarized politics get baked back into our institutions and make everything worse. Klein is a master at all of this.
When I read his book, I was deep in the academic literature about the psychology of misinformation beliefs. But his book made me zoom out to…
From Dannagal's list on understanding identity-driven wrongness in the United States.
Ezra Klein’s a journalist not an academic, but he does an excellent job of incorporating important academic research on polarization (in particular, work by political scientists Lilliana Mason and Lee Drutman) with a DC insider’s knowledge of how politics really works.
Klein offers a very different take on polarization from Haidt’s, focusing on history, racial politics, “partisan sorting,” and institutional incentives as the cause of polarizing behavior by politicians today. He also provides a nice discussion of practical policy options for reducing polarization like multi-member Congressional districts with proportional representation and Supreme Court term limits.
Klein admittedly leans left and…
From Daniel's list on understanding and defusing political polarization in America.
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