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One nation, two realities : dueling facts in American democracy
- Title
- One nation, two realities : dueling facts in American democracy / Morgan Marietta and David C. Barker.
- Author
- Marietta, Morgan
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Barker, David C. (David Christopher), 1969-
- Description
- xvi, 340 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- The deep divides that define politics in the United States are not restricted to policy or even cultural differences anymore. Americans no longer agree on basic questions of fact. Is climate change real? Does racism still determine who gets ahead? Is sexual orientation innate? Do immigration and free trade help or hurt the economy? Does gun control reduce violence? Are false convictions common? Employing several years of original survey data and experiments, Marietta and Barker reach a number of enlightening and provocative conclusions: dueling fact perceptions are not so much a product of hyper-partisanship or media propaganda as they are of simple value differences and deepening distrust of authorities. These duels foster social contempt, even in the workplace, and they warp the electorate. The educated - on both the right and the left - carry the biggest guns and are the quickest to draw. And finally, fact-checking and other proposed remedies don't seem to holster too many weapons; they can even add bullets to the chamber. Marietta and Barker's pessimistic conclusions will challenge idealistic reformers.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Concepts -- What smarter people have said about facts: philosophical and psychological foundations -- Dueling facts in political science -- Dueling facts in American politics -- Part II. Causes -- Your facts or mine? The psychology of fact perceptions -- The psychology of fact perceptions II: value projection -- Polarized leaders versus polarized values -- A theory of intuitive epistemology -- The roots of certainty: sacred values and sacred facts -- Part III. Consequences -- The democratic consequences of dueling facts -- Disdain and disengagement: the social and professional consequences of dueling fact perceptions -- Part IV. Correctives -- Political knowledge and fractured perceptions: education is not the answer -- Let facts be submitted to a candid world: fact-checking as a potential solution -- Citizen responses to fact-checking -- Symmetry, asymmetry, and durability -- Part V. Conclusion -- Conclusion: facts and values, knowledge and democracy.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10467
- ISBN
- 9780190677176
- 0190677171
- LCCN
- 2018040499
- OCLC
- 1050456736
- Author
- Marietta, Morgan, author.
- Title
- One nation, two realities : dueling facts in American democracy / Morgan Marietta and David C. Barker.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Barker, David C. (David Christopher), 1969- author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10467