Richard L. Abel

How Autocrats Attack Expertise

Resistance to Trump and Trumpism

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Produktbeschreibung

Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of Trumpâ s assault on truth and his populist attacks on expertise, as well as scientific and legal opposition to them.

Produktdetails

• Defending American Democracy
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 234mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9781032629100
• ISBN-10: 103262910X
• Artikelnr.: 69434256

Autorenporträt

Richard L. Abel is Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vi
Acronyms ix
Dramatis Personae xii
1 The Autocrats' War on Expertise 1
2 Politicizing Professional Expertise: The Trump Administration's Response
to the COVID-19 Pandemic 10
3 The COVID-19 Pandemic After the 2020 Election 96
4 A Permanent War on Science? 162
References 189
Index 194