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Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness in the American Democracy Edited by michael t. oswald Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness in the American Democracy Michael T. Oswald Editor Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness in the American Democracy Editor Michael T. Oswald University of Passau Passau, Germany ISBN 978-3-030-24791-1 ISBN 978-3-030-24792-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24792-8 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland C ontents Part I I ntroduction 1 1 Constitutional Crisis, Norm Derogation, and the Broader Impact of Partisan Polarization in Contemporary American Politics 3 Michael T. Oswald and John D. Robertson 2 Transformation of Democracy? Mobilization, Representation, and Responsiveness 37 Michael T. Oswald and Elena Broda Part II Institutions of Democracy and the Democratic Rule 41 3 A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing: The Trumpian Style™ in American Politics 43 Alisa Kessel 4 The Politics of Removal: The Impeachment of a President 63 Patrick Horst 5 The Transformation of the Congressional Primary 105 Mike Cowburn v vi CONTENTS 6 The US Supreme Court: Source of or Barrier to Polarization? 121 Sebastian Dregger Part III Socio-cultural and Technological Challenges of Democracy 137 7 When Inequalities Matter Most: The Crisis of Democracy as a Crisis of Trust 139 Christian Lammert and Boris Vormann 8 From 2016 to 2020: It’s the Economy, Still 157 Michael T. Oswald and Elena Broda 9 Future Unknown: How Digital Technologies and the ‘Future of Work’ Are Unsettling America 175 Natalie Rauscher 10 From Democracy to Oligarchy? The Power of Property in the United States 191 Jörg Hebenstreit Part IV Populism–Polarization–Protest 207 11 Does Identity Trump Everything? Nativist Anxieties Within the Republican Party and the Future Political Relevance of Ethnic and Racial Identities 209 Philipp Adorf 12 A “Journey for Justice”: Immigrant Mobilization in Response to the Revocation of TPS 229 Ana-Constantina Frost 13 Transforming Democracy and Partisanship: Globalization and Its Counter-Movements in the US 245 Betsy Leimbigler CONTENTS vii Part V America and Global Democracy 261 14 America and the Changing Global Order 263 John (Jack) M. Thompson 15 Trump’s Foreign Policy: Erratic Individualism Versus National Identity Change 279 Elena Dück, Bernhard Stahl, and Katharina McLarren 16 A Breakdown of Trust: Trump, Europe and the Transatlantic Security Community 301 Florian Böller Part VI Conclusion 321 17 The State of the American Democracy in 2019 323 Michael T. Oswald and Elena Broda Index 331 C ontributors Philipp Adorf University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Florian Böller Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany Elena Broda University of Passau, Passau, Germany Mike Cowburn Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany Sebastian Dregger Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Berlin, Germany Elena Dück Department of Geography, University of Passau, Passau, Germany Ana-Constantina Frost Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany Jörg Hebenstreit The Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany Patrick Horst Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, North American Studies Program, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany Alisa Kessel University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA Christian Lammert John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, The Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany Betsy Leimbigler Free Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany Katharina McLarren Department of International Politics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany ix x CONTRIBUTORS Michael T. Oswald University of Passau, Passau, Germany Natalie Rauscher Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany John D. Robertson Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA Bernhard Stahl Department of International Politics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany John (Jack) M. Thompson Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Boris Vormann Bard College Berlin, Berlin, Germany L f ist of igures Fig. 1.1 Partisanship with the American political culture 17 Fig. 5.1 Total primaries # 107 Fig. 5.2 Total primaries % 108 Fig. 5.3 Primaries by type % 109 Fig. 7.1 National income shares in the United States, 1980–2016. (WID 2018) 145 Fig. 7.2 National income shares in Western Europe, 1980–2016. (WID 2018) 146 Fig. 7.3 How trust is built 150 Fig. 8.1 Coding of the content of Trump’s speeches on the campaign trail based on own database and depiction 168 Fig. 10.1 Avenues of oligarchic influence 201 Fig. 11.1 Percentage saying that having a majority non-white population by the year 2050 will be good/bad for the United States (remaining shares: “neither good nor bad”). (Pew Research Center 2019, p. 36) 219 Fig. 13.1 Google Trend chart: America First 252 Fig. 13.2 Google Trend chart: Anti-globalization movement 253 xi
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