Marc J. Hetherington
Auteur de Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
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Œuvres de Marc J. Hetherington
Prius or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America’s Great Divide (2018) — Auteur — 35 exemplaires
Why Washington won't work : polarization, political trust, and the governing crisis (2015) 9 exemplaires
Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism (2006) 8 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1968-06-20
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- University of Pittsburgh (BA)
University of Texas at Austin (PhD|Government) - Professions
- political scientist
university professor - Organisations
- University of Virginia
Princeton University
Bowdoin College
Vanderbilt University
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 116
- Popularité
- #169,721
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 18
The work builds on Adorno, Stenner, and others in assessing the authoritarian personality, threat multipliers, and increased polarization. They do well at introducing the concept of authoritarianism, the history of its study, defining authoritarianism and nonauthoritarianism, the authoritarianism and nonauthoritarianism as the new matrix for polarization since the 1960s, and then seeing how authoritarianism, nonauthoritarianism, and polarization played out primarily in the 2000s through 9/11, the Iraq War, and the election of Barack Obama.
The book's major contribution to the field is in its understanding of nonauthoritarians as the primary driver of polarization and under threat multipliers: authoritarians tend to maintain the same disposition and attitudes, and when there is greater openness to a group or for civil liberties or the like, it comes from the openness of the nonauthoritarians. Nevertheless, when the threat level multiplies, authoritarians remain where they are, and it is the nonauthoritarians who move toward authoritarianism as the threat level increases. The authors do well in describing how this played out in many cultural issues of the late 20th and early 21st century.
Much work needs to be done in the field; far too many times authoritarians are cast as "the other," and in the work the authors admit that it is hard to get a good handle on what has driven authoritarians to authoritarianism (and, for that matter, nonauthoritarians toward nonauthoritarianism). It would also be good to be able to describe nonauthoritarians in their own right and not just in contrast with authoritarians.
It can be chilling to read this book and recognize it was written a decade ago; it would almost seem to have been the Trump campaign's manual (and if the author only knew how prescient his comment regarding the dynamics of the 2016 election would play out!). A work definitely worth considering if one wants to understand the dynamics at play in polarization and politics, and even social and cultural preferences, in our current age.… (plus d'informations)