American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics

by Steven W Webster

Book Overview

American Rage argues that anger is the central emotion governing contemporary US politics, with powerful, deleterious effects. Tracing the developments that have given rise to a culture of anger in the mass public, the book sheds new light on both public opinion and voting behavior. Steven W. Webster skillfully uses a combination of novel datasets, new measures of anger, and a series of experiments to show how anger causes citizens to lose trust in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108811922
• ISBN13: 9781108811927
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"