Wang Hao, “Structural Recombination and Process Remodeling: American Politics Since Donald J. Trump Took Office,”
Fudan American Review , Vol.28, No.1, 2019

【Abstract】Since Donald J. Trump took office, American politics has been undergoing structural recombination and process remodeling. On the level of political structure, the U.S. not only witnesses the tendency of partisan realignment, namely the party system that is featured by deeply but not closely divided, gradually replaces a party system that is featured by deeply and closely divided; moreover, the ideological structure of liberalism v.s. conservatism is also replaced by globalism v.s. nativism. On the level of political process, the dominating economic and social ideas in the last half century is also challenged by the rise of anti-establishment and so-called America First. Therefore, the author argues that the development of Trump phenomenon means that American politics is stepping into a new era, in which transformation and realignment will be inevitable.

【Keywords】American politics   party realignment   ideology   nativism   the Trump Administration

【Author】Wang Hao, Assistant Professor at Center for American Studies, Fudan University