Developmental Politics

How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself

By: Steve McIntosh

Narrated by: Josh Innerst

Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins

Publisher's summary

American politics is badly broken. Yet to solve the seemingly intractable problem of hyperpolarization, we need to look beyond the gridlocked politics of Washington, DC. 

In Developmental Politics, Steve McIntosh shows how this growing rift in the fabric of American society is a cultural problem that requires a cultural solution. He offers a pragmatic yet inspiring approach to our national political dilemma through a new politics of culture, one that goes right to the heart of this entrenched, complex issue. McIntosh presents a variety of innovative methods through which citizens and political leaders from across the political spectrum can reach agreement and achieve consensus.

McIntosh’s proposals for overcoming hyperpolarization are founded on an emerging form of “cultural intelligence” that directly addresses the conflicting values underlying our poisoned politics. This new way of seeing leads to an inclusive vision of social progress, a new "American Dream" that can help revive our collective sense of common cause and thereby restore the functionality of our democracy.

Developmental Politics provides the fresh thinking we need to transcend America’s contemporary political impasse.

©2020 Steve McIntosh (P)2022 Steve McIntosh

Paradigm Shifter

This book is so well written! Phrases and sentences that speak volumes on every (audio) page. Intelligence plus eloquence. Integral philosophy has changed the way I see the world and my place in it, deepened and broadened my appreciation of goodness, truth and beauty. And this book does as well as, or better, than any other to articulate it. I rarely listen to an audiobook more than once. I keep coming back to this one and enjoying it more each time. ❤️

This Is the Most Important Book on Political Polarization on the Market

In this critically important book, Steve McIntosh applies integral philosophy to bear on the most pressing issue of our time: political polarization. In it, McIntosh describes how the growing power and influence of the postmodern progressive worldview has fueled the fire of the culture war that gives rise to our polarized political condition. McIntosh's solution to this cultural growth is further cultural growth into the integral or developmental political perspective, which allows one to see the horizontal political spectrum through a vertical developmental perspective that can integrate the important political values advocated by all three major American worldviews: traditionalism, modernism, and progressivism. McIntosh calls this unique ability to appreciate the positive values of each worldview, while also rejecting their potential pathologies, "cultural intelligence". I sincerely believe that there is currently not a more important book than Developmental Politics. By pointing a way forward out of our culture war and the polarized politics it feeds, this book offers a ray of hope that we can repair our country's social fabric and begin to work together again to solve the many pressing problems we face as a nation and a world.

This is also an exceptionally well produced audiobook. The narrator, Josh Innerst, has a very engaging tone and pace. I have also read the printed book, and I found the audiobook to be quite listenable.