The 2016 U.S. presidential election revealed a nation deeply divided and in flux. This volume provides urgently needed insights into American politics and culture during this period of uncertainty. The contributions answer the election's key mysteries, such as how contemporary Christian evangelicals identified in the unrepentant candidate Trump a hero to their cause, and how working class and economically struggling Americans saw in the rich and ostentatious candidate a champion of their plight. The chapters explain how irrationality is creeping into political participation, and demonstrate how media developments enabled a phenomenon like "fake news" to influence the election. At this polarized and contentious moment, this volume satisfies the urgent need for works that carefully analyze the forces and tensions tearing at the American social fabric. Simultaneously intellectual and accessible, this volume is designed to illuminate the 2016 U.S. presidential election and its aftermath for academics and students of politics alike.
Auteur
Jason L. Mast is a Research Fellow at the Normative Orders Excellence Cluster at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of The Performative Presidency: Crisis and Resurrection During the Clinton Years.
Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and a Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is the author of The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power and co-author of Obama Power.
Contenu
Introduction
Jason Mast, Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Section 1: Election 2016: Differences and Reiterations
Chapter 1: Politics as a Vacation
Robin Wagner-Pacific, Department of Sociology, The New School for Social Research, USA
Iddo Tavory, Department of Sociology, New York University, USA
Chapter 2: When Voters Are Voting, What Are They Doing?: Symbolic Selection and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Matt Norton, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, USA
Section 2: Media and News Journalism: Narrative and Fake News
Chapter 3: Deep Stories, Nostalgia Narratives, and Fake News: Storytelling in the Trump Era
Francesca Polletta, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jessica Callahan, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, USA
Chapter 4: Journalism after Trump
Ronald N. Jacobs, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, USA
Section 3: The Meanings of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon
Chapter 5: On the Construction Sites of History: Where Did Donald Trump Come From?
Mabel Berezin*, Department of Sociology, Cornell University, USA*
Chapter 6: Donald's Dick: A Man Against the Institutions
Roger Friedland, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Chapter 7: A Period of wild and fierce fanaticism: Populism, Theo-Political Militarism, and the Crisis
of US Hegemony
Julia Hell, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, USA
George Steinmentz, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, USA
Section 4: The American Right and Trump-Bannonism
Chapter 8: Raging Against the Enlightenment: Steven Bannon's Anti-Democratic Ideology
Jeffrey C Alexander, Department of Sociology, Yale University, USA
Chapter 9: The Flight 93-ization of American Politics
Alexander Riley, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bucknell University, USA
Section 5: Religion: The Fates of White Christian Evangelicals and Muslims
Chapter 10: Why Evangelicals Voted for Trump: A Critical Cultural Sociology
Philip Gorski, Department of Sociology, Yale University, USA
Chapter 11: Muslims as Outsiders, Enemies, and Others: The 2016 Presidential Election and the Politics
of Religious Exclusion
Ruth Braunstein, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, USA
Section 6: Political Legitimacy and the Civil Sphere
Chapter 12: Populism's Efforts to De-legitimize the Vital Center and the Implications for Liberal Democracy
Peter Kivisto, Department of Sociology, Augustana College, USA
Chapter 13: The Fragmenting of the Civil Sphere: How Partisan Identity Shapes the Moral Evaluations of Candidates and Epistemology
Daniel Kreiss, School of Media and Journalism, University of North Carolina, USA
Chapter 14: Legitimacy Troubles and the Performance of Power in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Jason L. Mast, Normative Orders Exzellenzcluster, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Afterword *Lyn Spillman, Department of Sociology, Notre D...