The Trump Revolt
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2020
128 pages
978-1-5261-5368-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book considers the reasons for Donald Trump's surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election. It charts the prolonged campaign and the realigning processes that took place, analysing the ideas that defined the Trump platform, the electoral shifts in states regarded as solid 'firewalls' for the Democratic Party and the responses of Republican Party elites.
Although he is subject to contradictory pressures, the book places Trump firmly within the right-wing populist tradition. However, it argues that the sentiments that drove his campaign were not only a response to economic fears, high levels of inequality and racial resentment - they were also shaped by the structural character of American governance, which fuels hostility towards Washington DC and the 'political class'.
The book concludes by assessing the extent to which Trump's victory and parallel developments in Europe mark a reconfiguration of neoliberalism. -- .
Although he is subject to contradictory pressures, the book places Trump firmly within the right-wing populist tradition. However, it argues that the sentiments that drove his campaign were not only a response to economic fears, high levels of inequality and racial resentment - they were also shaped by the structural character of American governance, which fuels hostility towards Washington DC and the 'political class'.
The book concludes by assessing the extent to which Trump's victory and parallel developments in Europe mark a reconfiguration of neoliberalism. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-5368-5 (9781526153685)
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Edward Ashbee
The Trump Revolt
Book
07/2017
Manchester University Press
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Person
Edward Ashbee is Programme Director of International Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School -- .
Content
1. Introduction
2. The populist tradition and the American state
3. 'Trumpism'
4. Voters
5. Sequences
6. Order, timing and chance
7. Afterword: Donald Trump, neoliberalism and political reconfiguration
References
Index -- .
2. The populist tradition and the American state
3. 'Trumpism'
4. Voters
5. Sequences
6. Order, timing and chance
7. Afterword: Donald Trump, neoliberalism and political reconfiguration
References
Index -- .
