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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Main Author:	MacWilliams, Matthew C.
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2016]
Series:	Public works (Amherst, Mass.)
Subjects:	Trump, Donald, > 1946- > Influence. Trump, Donald, > 1946- Presidents > United States > Election > 2016. Authoritarianism > United States. Political culture > United States. Autoritarisme > États-Unis. Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections. Political Science. Authoritarianism. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Political culture. Presidents > Election. United States. 2016 Electronic books. Open access publications
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Summary:	"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
Physical Description:	1 online resource (66 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-52).
ISBN:	9781943208036 1943208034 9781943208029 1943208026