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Uncivil Agreement How Politics Became Our Identity

Lilliana Mason

The psychology behind political partisanship: "The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself." —Ezra Klein, Political polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, resear...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein described it as a touchstone and one of the most important political books of the last decade, noting that its core thesis argues Americans experience politics through identity rather than policy.

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Liliana Mason is a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the 2018 book Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity.

— Episode: How Identity Politics Took Over the Repu...

Episode: How Identity Politics Took Over the Republican Par...

Ezra Klein described it as a touchstone and one of the most important political books of the last decade, noting that its core thesis argues Americans experience politics through identity rather than policy.

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Liliana Mason is a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the 2018 book Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity.

I think this gets to the core thesis of your 2018 book, Uncivil Agreement, which was very, very influential for me, which is that Americans don't experience politics through policy. They experience it through identity.

Today, Explained

This book explored how politics evolved from just selecting a party to becoming a core social identity for people.

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The first book is Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity.

— Episode: Polar opposites

Episode: Polar opposites

This book explored how politics evolved from just selecting a party to becoming a core social identity for people.

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The first book is Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity.

The classic understanding of partisanship is just sort of which party that you which party you vote for based on your assessments of politics.

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