This book explores Donald Trump's political communication as a candidate and in the first two years in office. The 45th US President is dominating the media system and 'building the agenda' through the combined action of five strategies. He disintermediates his communication and…
'Our current politics is plagued by the disturbing reemergence of nationalism, populism, and extremism. Many countries have turned away from democracy in favor of authoritarianism. Eirikur Bergmann carefully examines these illiberal trends from across Europe and the US to explai…
This dissertation scrutinizes how American Exceptionalism evolved from a collection of Christian and English legends around 1776 into today’s well-organized narrative central to Americans’ self-perception and political discourse. It is based upon an extensive qualitative study o…
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 …
"In this passionate and timely study, Lindy Hern brings together decades of personal involvement in the campaign for national health insurance with a scholar's immersion in social movement theory. This work should be read by all interested in the history of the campaign for Medi…
