Polarized Families, Polarized Parties demonstrates that differing regional ideals of family have shaped party policy and ideological positions throughout the twentieth century.

Zachary Albert explores how elected officials, think tanks, and interest groups form partisan policy networks to forward their agendas. He argues that policy research is not objective and is heavily influenced by partisan and ideological incentives, impacting policy outcomes and undermining democratic representation.

What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first century, that citizenship is on the edge? The essays in this volume argue that citizenship cannot be conceptualized as a transcendent good but must instead always be contextualized within specific places and times, and in relation to dynamic struggle.