Crackup - The Republican Implosion and the Future of Presidential Politics

Samuel Popkin applies his extensive experience with presidents and presidential campaigns to provide a lively, extensively researched story of the contemporary Republican Party. He shows how reforms intended to take corporate money out of political parties ended up crippling party leadership, rendering them unable to cope with a new political landscape. In their stead, the machinations of billionaires pursuing pet issues and "purity for profit" activists thrived. As Popkin lays bare, party rebels such as Ted Cruz exploited these forces to block immigration and healthcare reform, opening the door for Trump's election.

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About the author

Samuel L. Popkin is Research Professor of Political Science at the University of California San Diego and has been a consulting analyst in five Democratic presidential campaigns, as well as consulting for polling with CBS News and YouGov. He is the author of The Reasoning Voter and The Candidate (Oxford).

Product details

• Authors: Samuel L. Popkin, Samuel L. (Professor Emeritus of Political Popkin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2021
• EAN: 9780190913823
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091382-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, Political leaders & leadership, United States of America, USA, Elections & referenda, Political leaders and leadership, Elections and referenda / suffrage