The blinders of partisanship and the 2016 US election
The blinders of partisanship and the 2016 US election
- January 9, 2017
- Russ Dalton, poli sci, in OUPblog, Jan. 9, 2017
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Russell J. Dalton, professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, [writes]: America has just experienced what some claim is the most unusual presidential election in our modern history. The Democrats picked the first woman to run as a major-party candidate, while the Republicans selected an alt-right populist who is the first modern candidate never to have held an elected office.
For the full story, please visit http://blog.oup.com/2017/01/partisanship-voting-presidential-election/.
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