American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age

ISBN-13: 9780190872434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

John L. Campbell

Recenzje

After acknowledging that he too was perturbed and surprised by Donald Trump's 2016 election, in this reflective analysis, Campbell argues that Trump's victory was created by what has become the usual cast of causal suspects: economic transformation, such as growing income inequality; racial division exacerbated by the reactions of many whites to Barack Obama's presidency; a rising ideological divide fed by media narratives (MSNBC versus Fox News); and sharpening party polarization, initially at the elite level but now also among the voting public. Drawing upon a wide range of social science sources and applying his insightful interpretation, Campbell gives a succinct but sophisticated context for trying to make sense of this radical development.This is a timely and important book.

O autorze

John L. Campbell is Class of 1925 Professor in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College and Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis (2010), The National Origins of Policy Ideas (Princeton, 2014), The World of States (Bloomsbury, 2015), and The Paradox of Vulnerability (Princeton, 2017).