Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State

Why Americans Vote the Way They Do - Expanded Edition
Expanded Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-691-14393-4
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 489 g

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans who vote based on God, guns, and gays; and elitist blue-state Democrats woefully out of touch with heartland values. With wit and prodigious number crunching, Andrew Gelman debunks these and other political myths. This expanded edition includes new data and easy-to-read graphics explaining the 2008 election. Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State is a must-read for anyone seeking to make sense of today's fractured political landscape.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gelman, Andrew

Park, David K

Shor, Boris

Cortina, Jeronimo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: THE PARADOX 1
Chapter 1: Introduction 3
Chapter 2: Rich State, Poor State 8
Chapter 3: How the Talking Heads Can Be So Confused 24
PART II: WHAT'S GOING ON 41
Chapter 4: Income and Voting over Time 43
Chapter 5: Inequality and Voting 58
Chapter 6: Religious Reds and Secular Blues 76
Chapter 7: The United States in Comparative Perspective 94
PART III: WHAT IT MEANS 109
Chapter 8: Polarized Parties 111
Chapter 9: Competing to Build a Majority Coalition 137
Chapter 10: Putting It All Together 165
Afterword The 2008 Election 179
Notes and Sources 197
Index 241

Über Autor(innen)

Gelman, Andrew
Andrew Gelman is professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University. His books include "Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks". He received the Presidents' Award in 2003, awarded each year to the best statistician under forty.