Educating the Public on Evidence-based
methods for improving inter-group civility.
With so many books published each year on politics, partisanship, and the causes of our dysfunction, how can anyone keep up with them all?
Answer: let us read them all and write short summaries!
| Book Name | Author | Link to Book Summary |
|---|---|---|
| The Disappearing Center: Engaged citizens, polarization, and American Democracy | Abramowitz, A. I. | Summary |
| The Polarized Public: Why the American government is so dysfunctional | Abramowitz, A. I. | |
| Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America | Avlon, J. | Summary |
| The Hopelessly Partisan Guide to American Politics: An Irreverent Look at the Private Lives of Republicans and Democrats | Berwitz, K., & Sinrod, B. | Summary |
| The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-minded America is Tearing Us Apart | Bishop, B. | Summary |
| The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America | Brownstein, R. | |
| Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives | Eilperin, J. | Summary |
| The Cure for Our Broken Political Process: How We Can Get Our Politicians to Resolve the Issues Tearing Our Country Apart | Erdman, S., & Susskind, L. | |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Haidt, J. (2012) | Read intro |
| Authoritarianism & Polarization in American Politics | Hetherington, M., & Weiler, J. | |
| The Political Centrist | Hill, J. | |
| What’s So Wrong With Being Absolutely Right: The Dangerous Nature of Dogmatic Belief | Johnson, J. J. | |
| Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the US Senate | Lee, F | |
| The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans | Levendusky, M. | Summary |
| It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American constitutional system collided with the new politics of extremism | Mann, T.E., &
Ornstein, N. J. |
Summary |
| Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy | Mutz, D. C. | |
A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country . |
Sabato, L. | |
| The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce them as Truths | Shermer, M. | |
| Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide | Sunstein, C. | Summary |
| Party Polarization in Congress | Theriault, S. M. | |
| Millennial Majority: How a New Generation is Remaking American Politics | Winograd, M & Hais, M.D. |