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Building: B, Floor: 4, Room: 401
Thursday 11:15 - 13:00 CEST (25/08/2022)
The polarization of American politics in general and the party system in particular has been saliently on display for some time now (Gerring, 1998; Hacker & Pierson, 2005; McCarty, Poole, Rosenthal, 2006; Abramowitz, 2010; Mann & Ornstein, 2012; Boatright, 2013; Klein, 2020. Yet, the exceptionally contentious period of the Trump Administration and the first year since his defeat at the ballot box, have brought forth ever more drastic examples of hyper-partisanship that is no longer rooted in ideological or philosophical differences. The Trump 2015 onslaught on the GOP has transformed the party away from the “principled conservatism” inherited from Reagan (Stevens, 2020) and toward an unstable mix of populisms borrowing from the Left (protectionism, preservation of social security) and the Right (anti-immigrantion stance, Wall at the southern border, deregulation, tax cuts etc.). After the 2018 midterms, this evolution has sprawled and branched out to the party in Congress and in the States, so much so that the ideological nature of the party is now blurred (as illustrated by the lack of an official party platform for the 2020 presidential contest) and that numerous Trump-like figures have emerged at all levels. Against this backdrop, this panel seeks to bring together scholars to assess the development of the party system, partisan socio-political contestation, and the Republican Party in all of its facets: “in the electorate”, “in the government”, and “as an organization” to take up V.O. Key’s traditional typology (1964)..
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Feeble Gatekeepers: Factional Insurgency and the Toppling of the Grand Old Party. | View Paper Details |
| The Republican Party and the voting “gender gap” in historical perspective | View Paper Details |
| “These Are Our People Now”: Performative Masculinity and the Emergence of the GOP as a Working-Class Party. | View Paper Details |
| The Republican Party’s Foreign Policy Positioning: From Trump to Trumpists? | View Paper Details |