Origins of the Culture War: Social Issues in State Party Platforms, 1960-2016

• In Event: State and Local Parties

Brief Overview

Partisan polarization has become the central story in American party politics. Drawing on over 1,700 state political party platforms between 1960 and 2016, we find that this transformation was the product of years of fermentation at the state level.

Authors

• Matthew Allen Carr, Columbia University in the City of New York

• Gerald H. Gamm, University of Rochester

• Justin H. Phillips, Columbia University in the City of New York