Zusammenfassung
Polarisierung gehört momentan zu den am meisten diskutierten politischen Phänomenen in den USA. Doch was zeichnet Polarisierung aus und wo liegen deren Ursachen? Dieser Artikel entwickelt eine Definition von Polarisierung und sieht deren Ursachen in einer Vielzahl von Faktoren, u. a. in der programmatischen Entwicklung der beiden großen Parteien, den ideologischen Positionen in Teilen der Gesellschaft, dem Zuschnitt der Wahlkreise und den Regeln und Verhaltensweisen im US-Kongress. Die möglichen Folgen für das politische System der USA werden abschließend erörtert.
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Die hier verwendeten Daten sind hinsichtlich des 112. Kongress aktualisiert und auf der Website von Poole und Rosenthal unter http://www.voteview.com/dwnominate.asp verfügbar. Eine Beschreibung des verwendeten Algorithmus findet sich in (Poole und Rosenthal 1997).
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Sirakov, D. (2016). Politik in der Krise? Polarisierungsdynamiken im politischen Prozess. In: Lammert, C., Siewert, M., Vormann, B. (eds) Handbuch Politik USA. Springer NachschlageWissen. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02642-4_37
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