The Radical Center: Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation
ISBN: 9780268193096
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Notre Dame Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Middle classes -- United States; Radicalism -- United States; Social problems; Political participation -- United States;

Drawing on extensive research and national survey data, sociologist Donald I. Warren here presents an in-depth analysis of the Middle American Radicals, who they are, what they believe, the major targets of their grievances, and the likelihood of their political mobilization. The evidence indicates that as many as one in five Americans shares the Radical Center perspective, including people who outwardly seem to have very little in common by way of economic, occupational, or education status. Of particular significance are the findings concerning potential support for the various presidential candidates and for a third national political party.

Donald I. Warren (1935-1997) was Program Director at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Black Neighborhoods: An Assessment of Community Power (1975), and Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio (1996.)


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