EMOTION AND BEHAVIOR THEORY: CURRENT RESEARCH IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Author(s):  
Dalbir Bindra
Author(s):  
Doug McAdam

The tumultuous onset of Donald Trump’s administration has so riveted public attention that observers are in danger of losing a historical perspective. Trump’s rhetoric and behavior are so extreme that the tendency is to see him and the divisions he embodies as something new in American politics. Instead, Trump is only the most extreme expression of a brand of racial politics practiced ever more brazenly by the Republican Party since the 1960s. His unexpected rise to power was aided by a number of institutional developments in American politics that also have older roots. In the spirit of trying to understand these historical forces, the chapter describes (a) the origins and evolution of the exclusionary brand of racial politics characteristic of the Republican Party since the 1960s, and (b) three illiberal institutions that aided Trump’s rise to power, and that, if left unchanged, will continue to threaten the survival of American democracy.


1998 ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Rudi Appels ◽  
Rosalind Morris ◽  
Bikram S. Gill ◽  
Cedric E. May

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