How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the postwar period to the extreme inequality and partisan divisions of today?

• Chapter 1 How Did We Get Into This Mess?


• Chapter 2 Postwar America: Bipartisan Consensus, the Median Voter, and the Absence of Social Movements


• Chapter 3 The Center Will Not Hold: The 1960s and the Shifting Racial Geography of American Politics


• Chapter 4 The Strange, Consequential Seventies


• Chapter 5 The Reagan Revolution?


• Chapter 6 The Slow-Release Revolution: 1988-2008


• Chapter 7 The Obama Years: Uncivil War


• Chapter 8 Restoring American Democracy


• References


• Notes


• Index

Doug McAdam is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Karina Kloos is Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist, Landsea Rural Development Institute.