Abstract
Electoral contests in presidential years bring out a plethora of analyses of the specifics of the contest, enriched by assertions about the unprecedented character of whatever has just happened. Yet the same contests are more or less automatically the register of an ongoing, shaping context for the ultimate result. This paper is an effort to tease out these basic background influences in advance, while demonstrating both their continuity and their roles in the governing administrations that followed. The paper begins with the coming of a modern era in American politics, characterized by split partisan control as the default electoral outcome. It then moves to the diagnostic characteristic of succeeding years, in the rise of the activists. The basic structural factors that characterize this extended period are then brought to life through the specific processes of policy-making in the Trump and then the Biden administrations. Together, these make the ongoing structure of American politics evident – and a larger contribution to the particular results of 2024 than are those various and diverse excitements of the moment.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Prologue to 2024
- Electability and Party Power Across Party Lines
- Understanding the Message(s): Spending and Content of Political Advertising on Television in 2024
- Election Advertising on Meta, Google, and Snapchat in 2024
- From the Podium to the Press: Coverage of Kamala Harris’s 2024 Convention Address
- Pocketbook Voting in a Polarized Era: Economic Vulnerability and Anti-incumbent Voting in Presidential Elections
- The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Public Opinion on the Economy and Immigration Helped Return Trump to the White House, but with No Clear Policy Mandate
- The 2024 Presidential Election Through Latino Lenses: Priorities and Vote Choice
- Less White than Ever? Using Ecological Inference to Probe the Trump Coalition’s Diversity in Louisiana
- The Trump Effect: Nationalized Narratives and Congressional Outcomes in the 2024 Elections