Marc Hetherington discussed why Americans today viscerally dislike and distrust the party opposite the one they identify with more than at any point in the last 100 years, and how these negative feelings are central to understanding the political dysfunction and gridlock that has gripped the U.S. for the past decade.
Date: 5 October 2016
Speakers:
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Chair: Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the LSE's US Centre.
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Marc Hetherington, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.