![]() Conventional analyses often conclude that conservatives’ behavior is contradictory, since red states have worse economic, health, environmental, and educational outcomes than blue states, and yet red state residents nevertheless tend to vote against public programs that would improve their quality of life (Hochschild calls this the Great Paradox). ![]() As political party affiliation has become the central dividing line in American society, Hochschild noticed that most liberal political analyses focus on people’s economic and political self-interest instead of the emotions that she argues fundamentally drive political behavior. ![]() Arlie Russell Hochschild, a renowned progressive sociologist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote this book in an attempt to understand the emotional underpinnings of right-wing politics in the United States. ![]()
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