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This book explores the deep contestations of the liberal script in the contemporary United States from a variety of perspectives. US democracy today is in crisis because of a profound ideological and affective polarization. The chapters in this volume show that Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party is a symptom and a catalyst, but not the cause, of the contemporary contestations of the liberal script in the US. To discern their major drivers from a longue durée perspective, each chapter takes a step back and asks three main questions: (1) How can we best describe the current contestations of the liberal script in the US, exploring the extent to which the US is unique in comparison to other liberal democracies facing similar contestations? (2) What are the main drivers and root causes that explain the current contestations and the crisis of American democracy they may precipitate? (3) What are the likely consequences for the future of American democracy?
The conclusions do not lead us to expect a return to "the norm" of internal contestations of the liberal script that are common in liberal democracies and have characterized the US throughout its history. Political, economic, and cultural polarization is by now deeply entrenched in American society and is eroding "mutual toleration" as the basis of American democracy. In other words, the resilience of US liberal democracy is at stake. It is unlikely that we will see the US liberal script bounce back in the near future.
This volume has emerged from research carried out as part of the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script - SCRIPTS", which analyzes the contemporary controversies about liberal ideas, institutions, and practices on the national and international level from a historical, global, and comparative perspective. It connects academic expertise in the social sciences and area studies and collaborates with research institutions in all world regions. Operating since 2019 and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), SCRIPTS unites eight major Berlin-based research institutions: Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), the Hertie School, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), the Berlin branch of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO).
Contents
1: Tanja A. Börzel, Thomas Risse, Stephanie B. Anderson, and Jean A. Garrison: Introduction: Polarization and Deep Contestations of the Liberal Script in the US
Part I. Setting the Stage: American Liberalism and Populism
2: Jan-Werner Müller: Is There Still a Liberal Public Sphere in the US? Was There Ever One?
3: Hans-Jürgen Puhle: Varieties of Populism in the US: Exceptional, Mainstream, or Model?
Part II. Polarization and Contestations of Liberalism in the US
4: Andrew Garner: Polarization and Contestation of the Liberal Script in US Politics
5: Robert E. Benson: The Supreme Court of the US and the Liberal Script
6: Marcia Pally: When is White Evangelical Politics Illiberal? The Effects of Duress and Strong Populism on the Liberal Script
7: Omar H. Ali: Independent Black Political Movements: African Americans Contesting the Liberal Script
8: Peter Parolin: Theatre as a Barometer of Contestation: The Case of Julius Caesar in Central Park, 2017
Part III. Still a Global Leader? Contestations of US Foreign Policy
9: Lora Anne Viola: Accounting for Illiberalism in American Liberal Internationalism
10: Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse: Is America Back? Contestations, US Foreign Policy, and the Liberal International Order
11: Stephanie B. Anderson and Jean A. Garrison: The Public's Commitment toward US Leadership of the Liberal International Order
12: Maria Celia Toro and Ana Covarrubias: Deep Contestations of the Liberal Script at the US-Mexican Border: The Cases of Free Trade and Human Rights
13: Michael Zürn: A Conclusion: The American Version of the Liberal Script, or How Exceptionalism Leads to Exceptionalism
