Josh Pacewicz is assistant professor of sociology and urban studies at Brown University.
There’s no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in Partisans and Partners, Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic.
Wheels-down in Iowa—that most important of primary states—Pacewicz looks to two cities, one traditionally Democratic, the other traditionally Republican, and finds that younger voters are rejecting older-timers’ strict political affiliations. A paradox is emerging—as the dividing lines between America’s political parties have sharpened, Americans are at the same time growing distrustful of traditional party politics in favor of becoming apolitical or embracing outside-the-beltway candidates. Pacewicz sees this change coming not from politicians and voters, but from the fundamental reorganization of the community institutions in which political parties have traditionally been rooted. Weaving together major themes in American political history—including globalization, the decline of organized labor, loss of locally owned industries, uneven economic development, and the emergence of grassroots populist movements—Partisans and Partners is a timely and comprehensive analysis of American politics as it happens on the ground.
REVIEW QUOTES
Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago
“A tale of two cities, and through them, of the tidal shifts of American politics in the last forty years. Based on years of painstaking field work as well as on archival and documentary analysis, the book develops a whole new approach to theorizing American political life. This will be one of the definitive American political ethnographies, right up there with Robert Dahl’s Who Governs?”
Nina Eliasoph, University of Southern California
“This superb study of the transformations of local political power in the United States over the past forty years doubles as a beautiful, tender, and evocative portrait of two whole ways of life, and triples as a set of answers to the most burning political questions of the day. Local politicians, party members, scholars of politics and culture, nonprofit managers, voters: everyone should read this book! By bringing poetry, science, and history to bear on our country—and world’s—most urgent political and social questions, Partisans and Partners ought to become a classic.”
發表於2025-02-02
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A well written study of the changing landscape of the political economy, as opposed to Hochschild's attempt to provide the deep theory and paint the indexical nature of voter reasoning. Voters rarely change, but why median voter theorem worked in the 1950s-1980s but not now is the great mystery, and this book provides one answer.
評分A well written study of the changing landscape of the political economy, as opposed to Hochschild's attempt to provide the deep theory and paint the indexical nature of voter reasoning. Voters rarely change, but why median voter theorem worked in the 1950s-1980s but not now is the great mystery, and this book provides one answer.
評分A well written study of the changing landscape of the political economy, as opposed to Hochschild's attempt to provide the deep theory and paint the indexical nature of voter reasoning. Voters rarely change, but why median voter theorem worked in the 1950s-1980s but not now is the great mystery, and this book provides one answer.
評分A well written study of the changing landscape of the political economy, as opposed to Hochschild's attempt to provide the deep theory and paint the indexical nature of voter reasoning. Voters rarely change, but why median voter theorem worked in the 1950s-1980s but not now is the great mystery, and this book provides one answer.
評分A well written study of the changing landscape of the political economy, as opposed to Hochschild's attempt to provide the deep theory and paint the indexical nature of voter reasoning. Voters rarely change, but why median voter theorem worked in the 1950s-1980s but not now is the great mystery, and this book provides one answer.
Partisans and Partners 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載