Political Culture in the Age of Trump
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781793610027
Subjects: Political culture; Democracy; Politics and government; Political Science: General
Description: This book explores the Trump presidency as an expression of the decline of the pluralist model and the rise of mass society as a working conceptualization of contemporary American democracy. Professor Melone describes, explains, and evaluates the isolation, alienation, and polarization of a significant share of the American electorate.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half-Title; title: Title; title: Copyright; title: Dedication; title: Contents; title: 1 A Proximate Understanding; title: 2 The Irony of Democracy; title: 3 Political Elites and the Deficient Political Culture; title: 4 Alienation and Democracy; title: 5 Midterm Rebuff; title: 6 Policy Differences and Partisanship; title: 7 Personality, Leadership, and Propaganda; title: 8 What Is to Be Done?; title: 9 An Era of Transformation; title: 10 The Core Problem; title: Acknowledgments; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: About the Author