Industrial Structure and Party Competition in an Age of Hunger Games: Donald Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election

摘要: The U.S. presidential election of 2016 featured frontal challenges to the political establishments both parties and perhaps most shocking upset in American history. This paper analyzes patterns industrial structure party competition major primaries general election. It attempts identify genuinely new, historically specific factors that led upheavals, especially steady growth a “dual economy” locks more Americans out middle class into life unsteady, low wage employment and, all too often, steep debts. draws extensively on newly assembled, comprehensive database contributions forces coalesced around each candidate. considers detail how different investor blocs related Republican Party Trump campaign as progressed role small contributors played various campaigns, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. also critically evaluates claims about final weeks light important overlooked evidence.