The Trump Phenomenon

Kivisto investigates how someone manifestly unfit to serve was elected US president, and suggests some implications of what it might portend for the future. He discusses events leading up to the election and beyond as the Trump operatives geared up to take over the reins of government, but stops with the swearing in. What happens when the Trump administrations begins to govern is another topic for another day, he says. He covers democratic culture and civic virtue, the Trump voter: labeling the baskets, and institutional openings to authoritarianism. – Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *“A brilliant piece of work - the best sociological explanation of what Trump represents, why he was elected, and why the Republican Party lost its way” - Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University, USA“A comprehensive survey on the social and institutional dynamics of the populist movement in the United States and the political actors behind it” - European Journal of American Studies“This book provides background information and analysis to discuss and build upon the continued cultural political polarization that challenges democratic institutions today… The author provides a comprehensive survey on the social and institutional dynamics of the populist movement in the United States and the political actors that are behind it. Scholars interested in the origins of right-wing populism and reasons behind the rise of Trump will benefit from reading The Trump Phenomenon.” - Marcus Walsh-Führing, European Journal of American Studies, 2018

Peter Kivisto is Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought at Augustana College, USA and Co-Director of the Laboratory for Research on Transnationalism and Migration Processes at St Petersburg State University, Russia. The author of over 30 books and 150 articles and book chapters, he currently serves on the Council of the American Sociological Association.