Education Realignment and Congressional Representation: Electoral Coalitions, Position Taking, and Polarization in American Party Politics

In recent decades, the division between American voters with and without a college degree corresponds more and more with a division between the Democratic and Republican parties. This book examines the impact of this growing "diploma divide" on the makeup of the parties' coalitions, each party's policy positions, and recent political conflict.

Expert scholar Joel Kersting highlights how the education divide influences voting and representation, with a mutually reinforcing feedback loop betwe...