Miscellaneous
Jennifer Victor, Richard Skinner, and Seth Masket talk with Vox editor-at-large Ezra Klein about dissatisfaction with American democracy, the evolutions of and differences between the Democratic and Republican parties, and what political science gets right and wrong. The articles and books mentioned here include, but aren't limited to, the following: -Julia Azari, “Weak parties and strong partisanship are a bad combination” -Will Blythe, "To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry" -Michael Finkel, "The Stranger in the Woods" -Matt Grossmann and David Hopkins, "Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats" -Ezra Klein, “White Threat in a Browning America” -Lilliana Mason, "Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity" -Joanne M. Miller, Kyle L. Saunders, and Christina E. Farhart, “Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Moderating Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust” -Diana Mutz, "Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy" -Neil Postman, "Amusing Ourselves to Death" Recorded in Washington DC on July 26, 2018 at the Vox studios.