280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States
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Shermer and Rosenfeld discuss: why we have a duopoly \\u2022 gerrymandering \\u2022 voting restrictions \\u2022 how we know all elections are not rigged \\u2022 abortion \\u2022 immigration \\u2022 US foreign policy \\u2022 the rise of conservative and liberal think tanks \\u2022 ideology \\u2022 political polarization \\u2022 political leanings of industrialists vs. tech billionaires and rural poor vs. urban poor \\u2022 Trump and 2016, 2020, and 2024 (are we facing civil unrest as never seen before?), and more\\u2026
Sam Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, specializing in party politics and American political development. His research interests include the history of political parties, the intersection of social movements and formal politics, and the politics of social and economic policymaking. His book, The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era (University of Chicago Press, 2018), offers an intellectual and institutional history of party polarization in the postwar United States. With Daniel Schlozman at Johns Hopkins University, he is currently writing a book on party development since the Founding, provisionally titled The Hollow Parties. His writing has also appeared in The American Prospect, Boston Review, Democracy, The New Republic, The New York Times, Politico, The Washington Post, and Vox.
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