Jason L. (Hrsg.) Mast

Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics

Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

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The 2016 U.S. presidential election revealed a nation deeply divided and in flux. This volume provides urgently needed insights into American politics and culture during this period of uncertainty. The contributions answer the election's key mysteries, such as how contemporary Christian evangelicals identified in the unrepentant candidate Trump a hero to their cause, and how working class and economically struggling Americans saw in the rich and ostentatious candidate a champion of their plight. The chapters explain how irrationality is creeping into political participation, and demonstrate how media developments enabled a phenomenon like fak… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Alexander, Jeffrey C. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-95945-0
EAN: 9783319959450
Produktnummer: 29330938
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 292 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'148 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße und 3 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Jason L. Mast is a Research Fellow at the Normative Orders Excellence Cluster at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of The Performative Presidency: Crisis and Resurrection During the Clinton Years. Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and a Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is the author of The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power and co-author of Obama Power.