The GOP appears keen to paper over any differences and double down on their support for Trump.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Republican Party
Displaying 21 - 40 of 281 articles
Though largely unread, party platforms are a vital clue about which groups hold real power in the two major national parties and can help predict what the government will actually do.
Independents’ political views and policy preferences reflect the economic and social conditions they see and experience every day. Democrats and Republicans have different sources for their views.
Wisconsin voters elected conservative and liberal politicians in almost equal numbers from 2008 to 2022 − in this election, issues such as abortion, the economy and immigration are key for voters.
In 1984, the album was atop the charts, and Ronald Reagan, running for reelection, told a New Jersey audience that he and the Boss shared the same American dream. Springsteen vehemently disagreed.
The Democrats and Republicans try to keep them off the ballot. But third-party campaigns can inject new ideas and force major parties to incorporate a wider array of interests.
Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
If you hear the 118th Congress described as a bunch of slackers, you’re not getting the whole story.
In taxpayer-funded email messages to constituents, Republicans prefer visual elements and strategic timing, and Democrats prefer more text-heavy missives.
The former president’s political obituary has been written many times over the past decade. Yet his support among Republicans has rarely dipped below 70%.
It’s not just polarization that’s driving voters’ malaise − it’s something else, which carries a stark warning for the health of American democracy.
Nearly a third of Americans say they believe that Donald Trump was the real winner of the last election, and the ratio is twice as high among Republican voters.
Texans’ belief in their state’s exceptionalism has helped fuel support for the Republican state government trying to take border security and immigration enforcement into its own hands.
There are many ways bad mathematics interferes with our democracy. Assigning delegates is just one example.
While Ronald Reagan is closely tied to this conservative conference’s origins, it has become a multiday event for die-hard Trump supporters.
A second Trump presidency may be a danger to democracy, but that’s more to do with the Republican Party than Trump himself, researchers of authoritarianism explain.
Under his watch, congressional action toward gun control ground to a near halt that lasted for many years.
Nikki Haley is the latest American female politician to shift her language, depending on whom she is talking to and where. But this tactic has a flip side, prompting criticism of her as inconsistent.
Iowa and New Hampshire have long cemented their status as the first-in-the-nation deciders in presidential nominating contests. This outsized influence has increasingly come under scrutiny.
Donald Trump may be the GOP’s frontrunner, but there’s a good reason why President Biden wants to face him in November’s presidential election.
Job Board
-
Team Leader, Admissions, Future Students
-
Economics Editor
-
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services)
-
Chief People & Culture Officer
-
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Construction and Project Management
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
-
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
-
Professor of Law, Drake University
-
Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
-
Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
-
Assistant Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia, and US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
-
Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
-
Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
-
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University
-
Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Birmingham
-
US Election Analyst, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
-
Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
-
Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations, United States Studies Centre,, University of Sydney
-
Professor of American and British Studies, University of Oslo
