The Increasingly United States
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The Increasingly United States
How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized
DANIEL J. HOPKINS
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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Names: Hopkins, Daniel J., author.
Title: The increasingly United States : how and why American political behavior nationalized / Daniel J. Hopkins.
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Identifiers: LCCN 2017049888 | ISBN 9780226530239 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226530376 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226530406 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Central-local government relationsUnited StatesHistory20th century. | NationalismPolitical aspectsUnited States. | Political psychologyUnited StatesHistory20th century. | United StatesPolitics and government20th century. | Political participationUnited StatesHistory20th century.
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Contents
Online appendixes are available at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/hopkins/.
One of the great pleasures of finalizing this manuscript has been the realization of just how many insights from colleagues, friends, and family members are scattered throughout these pages. In parts of the book where other readers are likely to see discussions of political behavior, I see instead places and conversations in which colleagues helped sharpen these arguments. To me, these pages bring to mind conversations on city streets and college greens, as well as the occasional late-night email. While I cannot adequately highlight everyones contributions hereand while I have almost certainly neglected someones contributionI do wish to express my most sincere thanks to friends and colleagues, including John Aldrich, Asad Asad, Joe Bafumi, Chris Bail, Jay Barth, Nicholas Beauchamp, Chris Berry, Sarah Binder, Nate Birkhead, Rachel Blum, Leticia Bode, Richard Boyd, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Richard Brisbin Jr., David Broockman, John Bullock, Andrea L. Campbell, Dave Campbell, Tom Carsey, Erin Cassese, Devin Caughey, Joshua Cherniss, Peter Thisted Dinesen, Kyle Dropp, Jamie Druckman, Ryan Enos, Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez, David Fontana, Rob Ford, Linda Fowler, John Freemuth, Paula Ganga, Claudine Gay, Elisabeth Gerber, James Gimpel, Kimberly Gross, Eitan Hersh, Leslie Hinkson, Frederik Hjorth, David Hopkins, William Howell, Kosuke Imai, Charles King, Karin Kitchens, Justin Koch, Vladimir Kogan, Ken Kollman, Dean Lacy, Eric Lawrence, Frances Lee, Jan Leighley, Gabe Lenz, Jacob Levy, Neil Malhotra, T. J. Mayotte, Nolan McCarty, Tali Mendelberg, Marc Meredith, Peter Miller, Colin Moore, Ryan Moore, Jonathan Mummolo, Clayton Nall, Brendan Nyhan, Eric Oliver, Danilo Petranovic, Lindsay Pettingill, Alison Post, Eleanor Powell, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Philip Resnik, Steven Rogers, Tom Sander, Jack Santucci, Eric Schickler, Deborah Schildkraut, Danny Schlozman, Chris Schorr, Jas Sekhon, Boris Shor, B. K. Song, Gaurav Sood, Chris Tausanovitch, Alex Theodoridis, Emily Thorson, Jessica Trounstine, Eric Uslaner, Milan Vaishnav, James Vreeland, Chris Warshaw, Margaret Weir, Antoine Yoshinaka, and Hye-Young You. I especially appreciate the assistance, advice, and thoughts of those outside the academy, including journalists, analysts, and political professionals: Kevin Collins, Jay Cost, Kevin Drum, Tom Glaisyer, Drew Linzer, Alex Lundry, Reihan Salam, and Aaron Strauss. Even friends and family were pressed into service on occasion, with particular thanks due to Rona Gregory, Alex Horowitz, Luke McLoughlin, and Elizabeth Saunders.
