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Opting Out of Congress: Partisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates - Hardcover

Danielle M. Thomsen

 
9781107183674: Opting Out of Congress: Partisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107183677 ISBN 13: 9781107183674
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

The book argues that ideological moderates have opted out of congressional politics because of the hyperpartisanship that pervades Congress today.

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About the Author

Danielle M. Thomsen is an assistant professor of political science at Syracuse University, New York. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics and Legislative Studies Quarterly, and has also been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, and the Christian Science Monitor. In 2015, she received the E. E. Schattschneider Award from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in American politics. She has received financial support from the National Science Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Dirksen Congressional Center. In 2014–15, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Political Institutions and Public Choice Program (PIPC) at Duke University, North Carolina.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107183677
ISBN 13 
9781107183674
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
208