The Rise of Trump : America's Authoritarian Spring /

The ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidential candidacy of the Republican Party has been both remarkable and, to most commentators, unlikely. The author argues that Trump's rapid rise through a bewildered Republican Party hierarchy is no anomaly; rather, it is the most recent expression of a lo...

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1. Verfasser: MacWilliams, Matthew C.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2016]
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Zusammenfassung:The ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidential candidacy of the Republican Party has been both remarkable and, to most commentators, unlikely. The author argues that Trump's rapid rise through a bewildered Republican Party hierarchy is no anomaly; rather, it is the most recent expression of a long-standing theme in American political life, the tendency and temptation to an ascriptive politics--a political view that builds its basic case on ascribing to any relatively disempowered group (whether defined by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, or other identifying category) a certain set of qualities that justify discriminatory treatment.--Publisher's description.
Beschreibung:1 online resource: illustrations.
ISBN:9781943208036
Zugangseinschränkungen:Open Access