The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump

The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump explores the myriad ways in which candidate, and then president, Trump exemplifies a nontraditional version of US politics. As a candidate he eschewed the norms of campaign procedure, and, in the worst cases, human decency, in favor of a rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners approach that appealed to those who felt marginalized in a changing society. Though the constitutional design of the presidency has seen political outsiders rise to the office of the presidency before and maintain stability, never before has a candidate so alien to political norms risen to the highest office. The presidency of Donald Trump represents the most significant challenge in the history of the United States to whether the constitutional design and boundaries on the office of the presidency can survive the test of an occupant who is antithetical to everything in its past. The editors and their contributors highlight how Trump's actions present direct challenges to the US presidency that have fully exposed and exacerbated long-held problems with checks and balances and led to questions regarding the potential for permanent effects of the Trump presidency on the Oval Office. The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump is organized into three sections. The first section analyzes the Trump presidency in the context of US elections, including Trump as a candidate, the 2016 presidential election, the 2018 midterm elections, and the right-wing populism that helped him get elected. The second section focuses on the how the election results and the associated political context have affected President Trump's opportunity to govern and the effect Trump has had on US political institutions: the legislative branch, the federal courts, the bureaucracy, the media, and organized interest groups. The final section examines Trump and public policy, with a focus on his disruptive version of foreign policy and his use of the domestic budget as a political football, such as the constitutionally questionable sequestration and redirection of budgetary funds provided for defense to the building of the border wall and his penchant for deficit spending that was kicked into overdrive with the COVID-19 stimulus package, making Trump the greatest deficit spender in the history of the republic.

Politics & Social Sciences

Rutledge, Paul

Rackaway, Chapman

Politics & Government

University Press of Kansas

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The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump explores the myriad ways in which candidate, and then president, Trump exemplifies a nontraditional version of US politics. As a candidate he eschewed the norms of campaign procedure, and, in the worst cases, human decency, in favor of a rough-and-tumble, take-no-prisoners approach that appealed to those who felt marginalized in a changing society. Though the constitutional design of the presidency has seen political outsiders rise to the office of the presidency before and maintain stability, never before has a candidate so alien to political norms risen to the highest office. The presidency of Donald Trump represents the most significant challenge in the history of the United States to whether the constitutional design and boundaries on the office of the presidency can survive the test of an occupant who is antithetical to everything in its past. The editors and their contributors highlight how Trump's actions present direct challenges to the US presidency that have fully exposed and exacerbated long-held problems with checks and balances and led to questions regarding the potential for permanent effects of the Trump presidency on the Oval Office.\nThe Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump is organized into three sections. The first section analyzes the Trump presidency in the context of US elections, including Trump as a candidate, the 2016 presidential election, the 2018 midterm elections, and the right-wing populism that helped him get elected. The second section focuses on the how the election results and the associated political context have affected President Trump's opportunity to govern and the effect Trump has had on US political institutions: the legislative branch, the federal courts, the bureaucracy, the media, and organized interest groups. The final section examines Trump and public policy, with a focus on his disruptive version of foreign policy and his use of the domestic budget as a political football, such as the constitutionally questionable sequestration and redirection of budgetary funds provided for defense to the building of the border wall and his penchant for deficit spending that was kicked into overdrive with the COVID-19 stimulus package, making Trump the greatest deficit spender in the history of the republic. 
 Review 
"How unusual has the Trump presidency really been? Editors Paul E. Rutledge and Chapman Rackaway tackle this crucial question in 
The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump, which features over a dozen well-crafted chapters focused on Trump’s rhetoric, his use of Twitter, his interactions with Congress, and much more. With its balanced, evidence-based approach, this book is required reading for anyone seeking a top-notch scholarly analysis of the Trump administration."— 
Jeffrey Crouch, coauthor of 
The Unitary Executive Theory: A Danger to Constitutional Government 
"The editors and contributors have done an outstanding job at cutting through the polemics and making sense of the Trump presidency. For a serious and level-headed analysis of the Trump era and how it fits into the larger framework of modern presidential studies, this volume is highly recommended."—Mark J. Rozell, coauthor of Executive Privilege: Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability, Fourth Edition, Revised and Updated 
"Paul E. Rutledge and Chapman Rackaway have collected the work of a notable array of scholars of American politics to outline the contours of the Trump presidency. Treating the Trump administration as a serious challenge to the nation’s constitutional design and traditional democratic norms and practices, the volumes chapters tease out institutional elements that remain strong enough to resist that challenge as well as those that have bent or broken because of it. The result is a volume of interest to scholars and students of US history, the American presidency, and the interactions between them."—Mary E. Stucke

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Philosophy

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Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform

History

Romance, Joseph

Americas

State University of New York Press

The last twenty years has seen a series of changes to American party politics: polarization, negative partisanship, decreasing voter turnout, and decreasing faith in elections and government. In Primary Elections and American Politics, Chapman Rackaway and Joseph Romance trace the origins of these and other problems to one of the most controversial reforms in American political history: the direct partisan primary election. With a comprehensive history of the primary election, the authors link the rise of primaries to the many political ills the nation faces today. They argue that the Progressives who created the primaries mistook direct democratic reforms, like the primary, for participatory democratic reforms like deliberative polling or participatory budgeting.

American Government: Political Culture in an Online World demonstrates how politics and government are connected to reader’s lives – not merely how public policy decisions affect them, but also how the constantly changing American culture shapes the nature of politics.
Available in print and eBook formats, American Government: Political Culture in an Online World:
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<li>Gives the reader a firm grounding in the historical development of America's constitutional framework, political system, governing institutions, and policy-making process.</li>
<li>Emphasizes American political culture-the political values, expectations, and beliefs of the masses of American citizens. </li>
<li>References how political culture shapes institutions, political campaigns, and the way that questions of policy are framed and addressed. </li>
<li>Includes a web supplement to cover the impact of online and social communication tools have provided on society. Video, interactive learning activities, assessments, and more are provided to students and instructors. </li>
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Kendall/Hunt Publishing

The greatest threat to American democracy is the voting public. Candidates for political office, organized interests, and political parties are often blamed for the ills of American democracy, but this book places the focus on the core issue in American politics: a disengaged, demanding, and often contradictory voting public. Structural reforms such as the direct primary, term limits, and campaign finance regime reforms make the problems worse rather than better because these structural reforms fail to address core issues that disengage the voting public from republican politics.

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The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump

The Unorthodox Presidency of Donald J. Trump

Communicating Politics Online

Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform

Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era Reform

American Government: Political Culture in an Online World

Civic Failure and Its Threat to Democracy: Operator Error

Communicating Politics Online: Disruption and Democracy

Communicating Politics Online: Disruption and Democracy