The rise of Trump : America's Authoritarian Spring / / Matthew C. MacWilliams

• Autore: MacWilliams Matthew C
• Pubblicazione: Amherst, Massachusetts : , : Amherst College Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 41 pages) : : illustrations
• Soggetto topico: Presidents - United States - Election - 2016; Authoritarianism - United States; Political culture - United States
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-52).
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- America's ascriptive tradition and Donald Trump -- The study of authoritarianism -- Defining authoritarianism -- Authoritarianism and threat -- Measuring authoritarianism -- Measuring American authoritarians' support for Donald Trump -- The role of fear and authoritarianism in Trump's rise -- How do we know that Trump's supporters are authoritarian? -- Trump 2016: anomalous outlier or turning point? -- America's choice: is America's Authoritarian Spring a harbinger of America's coming fall?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Rise of Trump
• ISBN: 1-943208-03-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910514194103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Public works (Amherst College Press)