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Why Washington Won't Work

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 US for the past decade.

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    Marc Hetherington, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.

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    Peter Trubowitz (@ptrubowitz), Director of the US Centre and Head of the Department of International Relations at LSE.

This event was held on 5 October 2016.