2-page, double-spaced paper comparing and contrasting readings of your choosing from the week.
George Washington, Farewell Address
Alan I. Abramowitz, “The New American Electorate,” in Abramowitz, The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump(New Haven: Yale University Press), 2018, pp. 90-120.
Pew Research Center. “Polarization in the American public.” June 12, 2014. Introduction, Sections 2 and 3.
Julia Azari, “Weak parties and strong partisanship are a bad combination,” Vox, 3 November 2016
David Karol, “Party Activists, Interest Groups and Polarization in American Politics,” in Thurber and Yoshinaka, American Gridlock, pp. 68-85.
Paul Pierson and Eric Schickler, “Madison’s Constitution Under Stress: A Developmental Analysis of Political Polarization,” Annual Review of Political Science, 2020.