TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merrill,Samuel
AU  - Grofman,Bernard
AU  - Brunell,Thomas L.
TI  - How polarization begets polarization: ideological extremism in the US Congress 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197745267
AV  - JK1726 .M475 2024
U1  - 306.260973 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - Polarization (Social sciences)
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Right and left (Political science)
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Opposition (Political science)
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Society & culture: general
KW  - thema
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Also issued in print: 2024; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - This title explains the feedback loop that generates ever-increasing polarisation - the signature feature of contemporary American politics. This loop is powered by the discipline exerted by the respective political parties and their activists on both their Congressional members and their district candidates. The authors show that tight party discipline produces party delegations in Congress that are widely separated from one another but each ideologically concentrated - in a word, polarised
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197745229.001.0001
ER  -