Volume 48 (2017), Edition 2

In the 2016 Congressional elections in the USA, the Republican Party succeeded in confirming its majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives . Although they lost two seats in the Senate and six seats in the House they managed to...

The events of 2016 challenged several well-established theories about the nature of U .S . presidential primary campaigns: that the party itself would ultimately control the nomination process; that an efficient campaign organization on the ground...

Republican Donald Trump was elected 45th President of the United States on November 8, 2016 after a campaign run on domestic issues, a lot of “post-truth” populism and fearmongering about social and economic decline . The shift from Barack Obama...

The outcome of the 2016 presidential election once again maintained the coherence of the American two-party system . Strong institutional barriers prevent third parties from breaking the political duopoly of Democrats and Republicans . Though...

Comparing Donald J. Trump’s achievements in his first hundred days with those of his predecessors in the White House, the picture regarding the realm of domestic policies looks ambivalent . The political agenda of the Trump-administration has seen...

Under which conditions can a constituency be counted as safe? This question is especially important for parties and candidates, yet has found different answers among scholars . Based on results since the 1998 Bundestag election the article...

Barack Obama wanted to be a transformational president in the mould of Franklin D. Roosevelt - he was not . According to Stephen Skowronek’s leadership types, Obama was a “preemptive” president who had to make political concessions to the...

Unlike in parliamentary systems, policy-making in the United States is not driven by political parties . Their roles have been assumed by “issue networks” or “advocacy coalitions”, whose like-minded participants - members of the...