• The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 1: 1992

  • Oct 18 2024
  • Length: 45 mins
  • Podcast

The Age of Polarization Election Special Part 1: 1992

  • Summary

  • ELECTION SPECIAL (PART 1)

    The US is in an Age of Polarization. From the 1930s to the 1980s, voter allegiances were more fluid and presidents sometimes won huge landslides (think Reagan in 1984 or Nixon in 1972). But for the last thirty years, a huge gulf between the parties -- at least rhetorically -- has opened up, and elections have been persistently nail-bitingly close. How did this happen? In this special series, we’ll be examining the campaigns and characters of the last 30 years and tracing the emergence of the partisan alignment and bitter polarisation we see today.

    We begin in this episode in 1992 – the first post- Cold War election, the first to be won by a Democrat since 76, the passing of a generational torch to the 46-year old Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and the ringing declaration on the right that America was now convulsed in a culture war.

    Presenter: Adam Smith

    Guests:

    Bruce Schulman, William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University

    Dan Rowe, Director of Academic Programmes, Rothermere American Institute


    The Last Best Hope? is a podcast of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. For details of our programming go to rai.ox.ac.uk

    Producer: Emily Williams. Presenter: Adam Smith


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