Polarized by Degrees explains the growing political divide between Americans with and without a college degree, illustrating how it polarizes our parties and elections, sows conservative distrust of universities, media, scientists, and policy experts, and plunges the nation into daily conflicts over the progressive direction of American culture.
In How Social Science Got Better, Matt Grossmann provides a robust defense of the current state of the social sciences. He focuses in particular on the salutary innovations in research methods and the broadening of subject matter that academics deem worthy of inquiry. He offers a wide-ranging account of current research trends that will necessarily force the academy's many critics to rethink their lazy critiques and instead acknowledge the path- breaking advances in knowledge occurring in the social sciences today.
Despite winning control of twenty-four new state governments since 1992, Republicans have failed to enact policies that substantially advance conservative goals. This book offers the first systematic assessment of the geography and consequences of Republican ascendance in the states and yields important lessons for both liberals and conservatives.