In Polarized Families, Polarized Parties, the political scientist Gwendoline M. Alphonso demonstrates the centrality of family in the development of American political parties in the twentieth century. She effectively corrects a political science literature in which family has been overlooked as a central force in shaping partisanship, including within the received wisdom about the conservative ascendancy of the late twentieth century. Unlike much of the scholarship on the politics of the family in the late twentieth century, which focuses on issues related to feminism and the so-called culture wars, Alphonso focuses on family economics. She argues that while by the late 1970s the politics of family values came to overshadow policy differences based on the government’s role in the economy, that shift was more rhetorical than actual: family politics in the late twentieth century was economic politics, articulated through a values framework but in many ways continuing the debate over economic assistance to families that had marked the earlier period. Here Alphonso seeks to undermine the “existing artificiality of the economics-culture dichotomy” (5−6) prevalent in scholarly work on American parties, a laudable goal.

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书评：两极分化的家庭，两极分化的政党：美国政治中的竞争价值和经济学

在两极分化的家庭，两极分化的政党中，政治科学家格温多林·阿方索（Gwendoline M. Alphonso）展示了家庭在20世纪美国政党发展中的核心地位。她有效地纠正了政治科学文学作品，在该文学作品中，家庭已不被视为塑造党派关系的主要力量，包括在关于20世纪后期保守派崛起的公认智慧之内。与二十世纪末期有关家庭政治的许多学术研究重点关注与女权主义和所谓的文化战争有关的问题不同，阿方索关注的是家庭经济学。她认为，虽然到1970年代末期，家庭价值观的政治逐渐掩盖了基于政府在经济中的作用的政策差异，但这种转变比实际更夸张：二十世纪末期的家庭政治是通过价值框架阐明的经济政治，但在许多方面仍在继续，这标志着较早时期对家庭经济援助的争论。在这里，阿方索试图破坏在美国政党的学术研究中普遍存在的“经济学-文化二分法的现有人为因素”（5-6），这是一个值得称赞的目标。