#1083 Matt Grossmann: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Matt Grossman. He is director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and professor of political science at Michigan State University. And today we're going to talk about his book, Polarized by Degrees, How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics.
So, Dr. Grossman, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to have you one. Thanks for having us. So let me ask you first, before we get into more detail here, broadly speaking, how would you characterize the divide you explore in your book?
What is it really about? Well, the diploma divide usually refers to the electoral divide between people without college degrees and with college degrees voting for parties of the left and the right, and indeed across the world. Uh there has been an increase in uh the divide between college-educated and non-college educated voters, uh, but in the US, because we have a two-party system, it's taken an extremely polarized uh form uh and it has transformed uh each major political party. The divide is very associated with the rise of social and cultural issues in our politics uh relative to economic issues. Uh, so where
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