The Crisis of American Polarization (Livestream)

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2022 Summer Lecture Series

7/7/2022-7/12/2022

9:00 AM-11:30 AM EDT on Tue Th

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$25.00

Contrary to the conventional wisdom of political science, the American public is ideologically highly polarized. It became polarized in the late 1960s and has grown more so in the intervening decades. Ideological polarization intensified and expanded into the political parties in the 1990s and more recently into social group associations (political sectarianism). The emergence of an ideologically-fortified feudal class structure has produced a social and political crisis: an unraveling of the Lockean liberal tradition in America–declines in trust in government and in other institutions, in patriotism, and in political tolerance.

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James E. Campbell is a UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, SUNY and will join emeritus ranks at the end of July. He has taught American politics at UB since 1998. He is the author of four books and more than 80 articles and book chapters. His most recent book, Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America (Princeton University Press, 2016), was selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles. Prior to joining Buffalo’s faculty, he taught at the University of Georgia and Louisiana State University and served as an APSA Congressional Fellow and as a program director at the National Science Foundation.