Book: Americans are no more polarized than pre-Reagan
"Polarization is the grouping of opinion around two extremes. No matter how we measure public opinion, this has not happened."
Despite widespread perceptions of rising political polarization in the United States, the American public is no more polarized than it was before the Reagan era, says political scientist Morris Fiorina.
Fiorina, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who studies elections and public opinion is the author of a new book, Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting and Political Stalemate (Hoover Institution Press, 2017). Here, he offers his take:
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