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Understanding a New Presidency in the Age of Trump
Joseph A. Pika
University of Delaware
John Anthony Maltese
University of Georgia
Andrew Rudalevige
Bowdoin College
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Names: Pika, Joseph August, 1947- author. | Maltese, John Anthony, author. | Rudalevige, Andrew, 1968- author.
Title: Understanding a new presidency in the age of Trump / Joseph A. Pika, John Anthony Maltese, Andrew Rudalevige.
Description: Thousand Oaks, California : CQ Press, An Imprint of SAGE Publications, Inc., 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017048006 | ISBN 9781544308210 (saddle stitch : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Presidents—United States. | Executive power—United States. | Trump, Donald, 1946- | United States—Politics and government—2017-
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Contents
1 I The Transition
2 II The Inauguration
3 III The First Hundred DaysThe Legislative PresidencyThe Administrative PresidencyThe Public Presidency
4 IV The Next Hundred Days and BeyondThe Russia Investigations: A White House under SiegeThe Agenda Stalls as the White House ChurnsAttempting to Reboot
5 V Foreign Policy
6 VI President Trump: A Natural ExperimentDiscussion Questions
7 Notes
Understanding a New Presidency in the Age of Trump
Photo 1 London’s Evening Standard expresses the surprise shared by many around the world—including Trump himself—after his upset electoral victory on November 8, 2016.
DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images
Donald J. Trump’s election on November 8, 2016, has been described as “one of the most stunning upsets in American political history.”1 Although Trump and his rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, both went into Election Day with historically high “unfavorable” ratings,2 conventional wisdom held that Clinton would win. That is what projection models and most veteran observers predicted. Even the Republican National Committee’s own internal calculations showed Trump coming up short of the 270 electoral votes needed to secure victory.3 On the day of the election, Nate Silver’s widely reported election forecast gave Clinton a 71 percent chance of winning the White House, and exit polls showed Clinton winning four crucial swing states that ended up going to Trump.
