num_pages: 288
description: Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to Americas deadlocked politics showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting to the workplace to TV preferences and which would be innocuous if only we could decouple them from our noxious political debate.Whats in your a Prius or a pickup? Whats in your coffee Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts? What about your cat or dog? As award-winning political scholars Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler explain even our smallest choices speak volumes about usespecially when it comes to our personalities and our politics. Liberals and conservatives seem to occupy different worlds because we have fundamentally different worldviews : systems of values that can be quickly diagnosed with a handful of simple parenting questions but which shape our lives and decisions in the most elemental ways. If we're to overcome our seemingly intractable differences Hetherington and Weiler show we must first learn to master the psychological impulses that give rise to them and to understand how politicians manipulate our mindsets for their own benefit.Drawing on groundbreaking original research Prius or Pickup? is an incisive illuminating study of the fracturing of the American mind.
language: English
title: Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide
publisher: Mariner Books