The Battle for the White House : The US Presidential Election 2020 in the Sign of Polarisation, Corona Pandemic and Social Tensions

Lemke, Christiane/ Wiedekind, Jakob

Springer（2022/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783658389338

Full Description

This book provides a concise and engaging analysis of the particularly unusual 2020 election year in the USA. The political science perspective illuminates societal tensions in the context of the Corona pandemic and elaborates election-deciding discourses. Larger socio-political trends such as ideological polarisation are addressed as well as the different campaign strategies of the two parties. In addition, the book offers insights into the election results of this landmark presidential election for American society and for the development of its democracy. The final evaluation of the resulting implications for transatlantic relations rounds off the book. 

Contents

Introduction.- Joe Biden on the road to the nomination.- Voting in the shadow of the pandemic.- Democrats versus Republicans.- The polarisation and its manifestations.- Economic policy as a question of fate: The elections in the sign of the recession.- A society without a network: Social issues in the election campaign.- Minorities in the us: The controversial immigration debate.- The strategies in the 2020 election campaign.- The election results and their transatlantic implications.- Concluding reflections.