This edited book aims to contribute to the political science scholarship on populism by focusing on the contemporary manifestations of populism in light of the current context. Populism has gone global, with populist parties gaining considerable ground, particularly in the last decade: populists are now in government in almost every part of the globe.

Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them? In the face of widespread challenges—everything from record levels of personal and national debt and the sky high cost of education, to gun violence, racial discrimination, an immigration crisis, overpriced pharmaceuticals, and much more—the government seems paralyzed and unable to act, the most recent example being Covid-19.

The Plot to Hack America reads like a spy thriller, but it's all too real. –US Daily Review

Was steckt hinter der durch Donald Trump geprägten neuen Wirtschaftspolitik der USA? Ist eine populistische Präsidentschaft in den Vereinigten Staaten ein vorübergehendes Phänomen? Dieses Buch erklärt, warum „Trumpism“ ein strukturelles Problem ist und welche Folgen der US-Protektionismus und die inkonsistente Wirtschaftspolitik für die USA, die Europäische Union und Asien haben werden.

The United States has never had a president quite like Donald J. Trump. He violated every rule of conventional presidential campaigns to win a race that almost no one, including at times he himself, thought he would win. In so doing, Trump set off cataclysmic shock waves across the country and world that have not subsided and are unlikely to as long as he remains in office.

Dieser Band untersucht aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive das öffentliche Auftreten von Donald Trump und nimmt dabei insbesondere in den Blick, wie der US-amerikanische Präsident an der gesellschaftlichen Konfrontation unterschiedlicher politischer Gruppen partizipiert und diese kommunikativ weiter forciert. Diskutiert werden Trumps Mediengebrauch, seine Adressierungsstrategien und seine Politik der Affekte. Die Beiträge des Bandes rücken den „great disruptor“ in ein Spannungsfeld von Populärkultur, fragmentierter Öffentlichkeit und rhetorischer Feindsetzung.

“Ouyang and Waterman have crafted a fascinating book that examines the Twitter-verse of Donald Trump. More importantly, their well-written effort challenges many of our assumptions about modern presidential rhetoric studies. They put forth the concept of ‘going directly public’ (GDP) which looks at how a president engages the public and uses media power to shift the political system.”

"Je suis le plus grand écrivain du monde en 140 signes" déclarait Donald Trump le 21 Juillet 2014. Vous en doutiez ?
C'est en s’emparant de Twitter et de ses contraintes formelles que Trump fait éclore son art.
En virtuose du clavier, il nous offre ses pensées les plus profondes, tantôt méditatives : une poésie immédiate, authentique et sans filtre. Face à des attaques virulentes, et un monde qui ne saurait pas répondre à ses aspirations, les mots sont le dernier refuge d'une âme sensible. …

While the roads to Congress are often full of potholes, in 2018 many of those roads looked like mine fields. With partisan control of both chambers of Congress up for grabs in the first midterm of the Trump presidency and the theme of potential impeachment looming on both sides, The Roads to Congress 2018 offers inside views of this critical election through expert analysis and case studies of the year’s most high-profile races.