From the European Law and Governance School's Course: Democracy and Legitimacy
The lecture will be delivered by Associate Professor Chrysanthos D. Tassis, and the event will be moderated by Dr. Anastasia Marinopoulou, ELGS Resident Lecturer. The event will also be available via an online link here.
Summary
The purpose of the lecture is to analyze the basic factors in US politics and society which led to the political and electoral dynamics of D. Trump. D. Trump is not a coincidental phenomenon, as he is just the second case in US politics that a sitting President who faces a defeat in the Presidential Election process, manages to accomplish such a comeback. Therefore, the lecture will emphasize on the ideological and structural transformations which took place in the US political parties (Republicans and Democrats), along with fundamental changes in US economy, democracy, and society. These political
and economic evolutions had as a result the development of a social alliance constituted by the Evangelical Christians, a part of the urban class (Silicon
Valley), veterans, white working class (Rust Belt) and rural strata which seems to promote D. Trump’s political and electoral dynamics.
Chrysanthos D. Tassis is Associate Professor of Political Sociology and Greek Party Politics, at the Department of Social Policy, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is graduate with scholarship on Study of the US Institute for Scholars (SUSI) on American Politics and Political Thought, University of Massachusetts, Donahue Institute, and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Political Science, University of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
