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The greatest threat to American democracy is the voting public.
Candidates for political office, organized interests, and political
parties are often blamed for the ills of American democracy, but
this book places the focus on the core issue in American politics:
a disengaged, demanding, and often contradictory voting public.
Structural reforms such as the direct primary, term limits, and
campaign finance regime reforms make the problems worse rather than
better because these structural reforms fail to address core issues
that disengage the voting public from republican politics.
This second edition explores the relationship between politics and
media, with a particular emphasis on the significant disruptive
changes to media and technology that have faced journalists,
campaigners, and the public in recent years. The first edition, in
2014, described the earliest elements of social and online media:
Web 2.0, the 'information economy,' and the changes from
traditional broadcast media to the early online world. With the
rise of TikTok, the 'fake news' claims of Donald Trump, the decline
of local news, and the anti-democratic impulses that drove the
January 6, 2021 coup attempts, the last decade has provided a rich
and sometimes confounding set of disruptions to political
communication that deserve attention. Technology has disrupted
political communication in the online environment exceptionally
quickly over the last decade, and this book provides a framework
for understanding the intersections of these disruptions and their
effect on an already-fragile democratic circumstance in the United
States.
This book addresses the changing electoral and political
circumstances in which American political parties found themselves
during the 2016 election, and the strategic adaptations this new
pressure may require. The respective establishments of both major
political parties have found themselves facing serious challenges.
Some observers wondered if realignment was in progress, and whether
the parties could survive. Both grounded in research and accessible
to more than just academics, this book provides important insights
into how political parties can move forward from 2016.
The world of political communication is morphing almost constantly
into new areas and realities. Online-only news, Web 2.0
user-created content, hyperlocal news, and the rise of the
Twittersphere have all contributed to an ever-changing media
environment. Communicating Politics Online captures the constant
change of new online media.
The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump explores the myriad
ways in which candidate, and then president, Trump exemplifies a
nontraditional version of US politics. As a candidate he eschewed
the norms of campaign procedure, and, in the worst cases, human
decency, in favor of a rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners approach
that appealed to those who felt marginalized in a changing society.
Though the constitutional design of the presidency has seen
political outsiders rise to the office of the presidency before and
maintain stability, never before has a candidate so alien to
political norms risen to the highest office. The presidency of
Donald Trump represents the most significant challenge in the
history of the United States to whether the constitutional design
and boundaries on the office of the presidency can survive the test
of an occupant who is antithetical to everything in its past. The
editors and their contributors highlight how Trump's actions
present direct challenges to the US presidency that have fully
exposed and exacerbated long-held problems with checks and balances
and led to questions regarding the potential for permanent effects
of the Trump presidency on the Oval Office. The Unorthodox
Presidency of Donald J. Trump is organized into three sections. The
first section analyzes the Trump presidency in the context of US
elections, including Trump as a candidate, the 2016 presidential
election, the 2018 midterm elections, and the right-wing populism
that helped him get elected. The second section focuses on the how
the election results and the associated political context have
affected President Trump's opportunity to govern and the effect
Trump has had on US political institutions: the legislative branch,
the federal courts, the bureaucracy, the media, and organized
interest groups. The final section examines Trump and public
policy, with a focus on his disruptive version of foreign policy
and his use of the domestic budget as a political football, such as
the constitutionally questionable sequestration and redirection of
budgetary funds provided for defense to the building of the border
wall and his penchant for deficit spending that was kicked into
overdrive with the COVID-19 stimulus package, making Trump the
greatest deficit spender in the history of the republic.
The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump explores the myriad
ways in which candidate, and then president, Trump exemplifies a
nontraditional version of US politics. As a candidate he eschewed
the norms of campaign procedure, and, in the worst cases, human
decency, in favor of a rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners approach
that appealed to those who felt marginalized in a changing society.
Though the constitutional design of the presidency has seen
political outsiders rise to the office of the presidency before and
maintain stability, never before has a candidate so alien to
political norms risen to the highest office. The presidency of
Donald Trump represents the most significant challenge in the
history of the United States to whether the constitutional design
and boundaries on the office of the presidency can survive the test
of an occupant who is antithetical to everything in its past. The
editors and their contributors highlight how Trump's actions
present direct challenges to the US presidency that have fully
exposed and exacerbated long-held problems with checks and balances
and led to questions regarding the potential for permanent effects
of the Trump presidency on the Oval Office. The Unorthodox
Presidency of Donald J. Trump is organized into three sections. The
first section analyzes the Trump presidency in the context of US
elections, including Trump as a candidate, the 2016 presidential
election, the 2018 midterm elections, and the right-wing populism
that helped him get elected. The second section focuses on the how
the election results and the associated political context have
affected President Trump's opportunity to govern and the effect
Trump has had on US political institutions: the legislative branch,
the federal courts, the bureaucracy, the media, and organized
interest groups. The final section examines Trump and public
policy, with a focus on his disruptive version of foreign policy
and his use of the domestic budget as a political football, such as
the constitutionally questionable sequestration and redirection of
budgetary funds provided for defense to the building of the border
wall and his penchant for deficit spending that was kicked into
overdrive with the COVID-19 stimulus package, making Trump the
greatest deficit spender in the history of the republic.
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