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Morris P. Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on elections and public opinion with particular attention to the quality of representation: how well the positions of elected...
Area 45: Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, And Political Stalemate Featuring Morris Fiorina
Will 2018 see a continuation of the third great stretch of instability in national politics?
Morris P. Fiorina examines the myth of a polarized America
Hoover senior fellow Morris Fiorina examines the myth of a polarized America with Hoover deputy director David Brady. The general public is often portrayed as bitterly divided on social, political, and economic issues, but new research shows that most Americans stand in the middle of the political landscape, preferring centrist candidates and holding moderate positions on charged cultural issues. It is the political parties and the media that have ignored this fact and distorted public perceptions.
The Not So Big Conservative Base
Stanford’s Morris Fiorina, one of America’s leading political scientists, has published a new book titled, Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics. . . .
Are We Headed For A Second Civil War?
A cliché is haunting America — the cliché of a second civil war.
Area 45: The Divided States Of America
The 2016 Election: Partisan or Cultural Divide?
Democracy's demolition derby
It's been an education, my four decades in Washington journalism: an anniversary that prompts this personal reflection. . . .
FF Symposium: Where’s the Vital Center?
The term the “vital center” was coined of course by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. 60 years ago. . . .
The Left’s Purity Test?
Erick Erickson poses a direct question to me at RedState.com this morning. . . .
Polarized Pols Versus Moderate Voters?
A scholar disputes the notion that the American electorate is deeply polarized. . . .
The GOP's Best Weapon in 2010
Inclement political weather rocked President Obama and his party this summer...
Fight Club
While the political parties duke it out over divisive social issues, the majority of Americans remain steadfastly in the middle. . . .
Brown poised for massive upset
Polls across the board show Republican Scott Brown about to take the Massachusetts Senate seat that has been in the Kennedy clan since JFK. . . .
America's vaunted 'culture war' is a mock battle
As the nation's attention reluctantly turns to the political parties' conventions, with their scripted suspense and stage-managed sentiment, it is important to keep in mind that these are phony representations of American political life...
How America Got Polarized
As my wife and I waited to see a screening of "Best of Enemies," a new documentary focusing on the debates between the conservative publisher William Buckley Jr. and the liberal author Gore Vidal in the summer 1968, I overheard another guest say, "It will be nice to see a movie about a time when television was so much better at the news than it is today."
America Has Held Together Through Worse Times Than Now
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) reminded President Trump earlier this year, “America is an idea, not a race.” That idea is actually a plural of concepts based on our Constitution, our system of democratic institutions and norms, and our belief in the American Dream—the notion that regardless of where you come from, you can realize anything, go anywhere.
How Close Is The United States To A Civil War?
At the beginning of the Cold War, the artist wife of the physicist Alexander Langsdorf came up with the image of the “doomsday clock.” It appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to illustrate the fear of many physicists—including some who had been involved in the creation of the atomic bomb—that a “technology-induced catastrophe” might be terrifyingly close. Midnight on the doomsday clock meant nuclear Armageddon.
Stanford professor debunks political polarization in Tempe campus lecture
The notions of a politically discordant and ideologically polarized American public that dominate American news media outlets are flawed and unfounded, a visiting political science professor said Thursday in a Tempe campus lecture. . . .
Nasty rhetoric could backfire on bill's foes
The verbal nastiness that has shadowed the health care reform debate peaked as the bill rumbled to a finish, with opponents shouting racial epithets and spitting at members of the Congressional Black Caucus while yelling anti-gay slurs at Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. . . .
Has Partisanship Really Gotten So Bad On Hill? Yes
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh says his stunning decision not to seek a third term was prompted by the partisanship that has gripped the nation's capital, stunting progress on the country's most pressing issues. . . .
Carly Fiorina on the Future of the United States
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The path forward for the United States.