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, MacWilliams argues, it is t...

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Beteilige Person: MacWilliams, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amherst, Massachusetts Amherst College Press [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Public works
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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, MacWilliams argues, 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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-52)
Umfang:ix, 52 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9781943208029
1943208026