Unstable Majorities goes beyond this important myth busting to offer an explanation for contemporary paralysis: many Americans have sorted into two minority parties with distinct issue positions, but both sides have empowered … Meaning, if two Americans aren't in agreement on an issue they usually aren't too far apart, BUT... the candidates that they most closely identify with are usually miles apart from on another. He grew up in rural Pennsylvania and worked in steel mills to put himself through college. Morris Fiorina on Polarization, Stability, and the State of the Electorate Jul 8 2013 Morris Fiorina , the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow at Stanford University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the American electorate and recent election results. The Myth of a Polarized America with Jeremy C. Pope ( Brigham Young University ), and with the help of the research assistant Samuel J Abrams. A professor at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Fiorina has spent much of his life studying the American electorate. Fiorina dove right into his material, beginning with a direct message to the crowd: “People in politics feel free to choose their own facts.” With this as a starting point, Fiorina, stressed the importance of being constantly critical and refusing to make presumptions. Politicians more polarized than voters, Stanford political scientist finds The nation is no more politically divided than it was in the 1970s, despite how things might appear in the news. Morris Fiorina sets out to prove that the people aren't polarized on their policy positions, they are polarized in their choices. This is one of many stunning assertions in Morris Fiorina’s new book “Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate.” How can this be true, one might wonder, given the partisan gridlock that we see and the incivility that we hear on what seems like a daily basis? Contrary to popular belief, America is not polarized. Morris P. Fiorina has been at the forefront of assessing and pushing back against this view, especially the blame placed on the American public. Morris P. Fiorina Stanford University Samuel A. Abrams Harvard University Jeremy C. Pope Brigham Young University A lthough we are surprised that Abramowitz and Saunders continue to advance arguments that we have rebutted in other publications, we are grateful to the Journal for providing another opportunity to address some misconceptions in the study of popular polarization… The answer, it turns out, is in the … Morris P. Fiorina (born 1946) is an American political scientist and co-author of the book Culture War? Morris Fiorina’s Foundational Contributions to the Study of Partisanship and Mass Polarization DOI 10.1515/for-2017-0011 Introduction Morris Fiorina is a giant of American political science. According to Google Scholar, as of June 2016, Fiorina has more than 23,000 citations, which almost certainly makes him one of the most well cited political scientists in the entire … Morris P. Fiorina is an optimistic political scientist like few others. In this episode, Fiorina busts political myths, explains the …