Robert G. Boatright is Professor of Political Science at Clark University and the Director of Research at the National Institute for Civil Discourse at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the effects of campaign and election laws on the behavior of politicians and interest groups, with a particular focus on primary elections and campaign finance laws and practices. He is the author or editor of seven books, including The Deregulatory Moment? A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws, Getting Primaried: The Causes and Consequences of Congressional Primary Challenges, and Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada. Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University. Her research interests lie mainly at the intersection of Russian politics and gender studies. She is a co-author of Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights, and the author of Sex, Politics, & Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia, Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability, and Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia.
Trumping Politics as Usual offers a fresh and timely perspective on
the historic 2016 election, uniting an original analysis of the
presidential race with a compelling examination of the battle for
control of the U.S. House and Senate.
*Kira Sanbonmatsu, Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women
and Politics, Rutgers University*
By considering how 2016 congressional candidates
navigatedmasculinity and femininity given the larger gender
dynamics of the2016 presidential election, Boatright and Sperling
make an important contribution to the fields of both gender and
electoralpolitics.
*Melissa Deckman, author of Tea Party Women*
Boatright and Sperling have assembled a richly detailed and highly
readable account of the impact of the Trump candidacy and his open
misogyny on congressional races in 2016. Their careful analysis
offers a myriad of new questions and lessons as the 2020
presidential season approaches.
*Cindy Simon Rosenthal, Emeritus Presidential Professor and
Director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies
Center, University of Oklahoma*
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