Book Review: Josh Pacewicz 'Partisans and Partners. The Politics of Post-Keynesian Society' Chicago University Press, 2016

This comparative political ethnography of two rustbelt American cities aims to explain some current key trends of US politics, such as the motives and causes reciprocally leading to the polarization of political parties and grassroots party activists, as well as to American common voters’ distrust of party politics in general. With a paired comparison on two communities traditionally characterized by different local political cultures – a traditionally blue-Democratic River City and a red-Republican Prairieville – political sociologist Josh Pacewicz aims to propose a new explanation of contemporary America’s puzzling political culture looking at how the reorganization of the community institutions has radically affected the grassroots base of the two-party system