Summary: For this podcast, I usually interview book authors. This week, I am trying something a little different. I focus on a new political science journal and one of their upcoming book review articles. On the podcast are: Eric Waltenburg, Associate Professor and Purdue University and Stephen K. Medvic, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Government, Franklin & Marshall College. Waltenburg is the Lead Editor, Politics, Groups, and Identities, a new journal affiliated with the Western Political Science Association. Medvic has written a review of four new books about political partisanship (see below). We discuss the review and the larger vision for the journal. Zoltan L. Hajnal and Taeku Lee. Why Americans Don’t Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate (Princeton University Press, 2011) Howard G. Lavine, Christopher D. Johnston, and Marco R. Steenbergen. The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012) Matthew Levendusky. The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans (University of Chicago Press, 2009) Paul M. Sniderman and Edward H. Stiglitz. The Reputational Premium: A Theory of Party Identification and Policy Reasoning (Princeton University Press, 2012)
