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New book also looks at how the election shaped 2018 congressional campaign<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n Political Science professors Valerie Sperling, left, and Robert Boatright\n

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Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton were the first ever male-female major-party candidates competing for the presidency, but as President Trump campaigns for reelection against a Democratic field that includes several women, there is more to learn about what 2016’s votes mean for this year’s balloting than just that personal dynamic.<\/p>\n

According to “Trumping Politics as Usual: Masculinity, Misogyny, and the 2016 Elections<\/a>,” a recently released book by Political Science<\/a> Professors Robert Boatright<\/a> and Valerie Sperling<\/a>, gender debates were critical to how Democrats and Republicans campaigned for the U.S. House and Senate not only because a man and a woman were competing for the nation’s highest office, but also because of how Trump’s rhetoric affected judgments about those debates at every political level.<\/p>\n

$\"Trumping$ “In many elections,” Professor Sperling said, “candidates frame their appeals in gendered ways — they compete, for instance, over who is more ‘masculine.’ This is the case for male and female candidates alike.”<\/p>\n

Professor Boatright added, “In 2016, the stark choice between the first major-party female candidate and a man who exhibited a persistent pattern of misogyny made the use of gender more prominent than in any previous election in the United States.”<\/p>\n

“Trumping Politics as Usual” also explores how Trump and other world leaders — including Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte — use masculinity in their establishment of political authority.<\/p>\n

Cindy Simon Rosenthal<\/a>, presidential professor emerita and director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center<\/a> at the University of Oklahoma, wrote, “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.”<\/p>\n

Along with an in-depth examination of the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, “Trumping Politics as Usual” explores the consequences of the 2016 presidential campaign for congressional primary election turnout, interest-group spending, and advertising strategy. The book also considers how the congressional campaigns of 2018 were shaped by the 2016 presidential race.<\/p>\n

Professor Sperling’s research interests lie mainly at the intersection of gender studies and Russian politics. Her book, “Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia<\/a>,” (Oxford University Press, 2014) won the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies<\/a> Davis Center Book Prize<\/a> for the “outstanding monograph on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology or geography.”<\/p>\n

Professor Boatright teaches courses on and researches American political behavior, political parties, campaigns and elections, interest groups, political participation, and political theory. He is co-editor of “A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and Its Discontents<\/a>” (Routledge, 2019). His book “Getting Primaried: The Changing Politics of Congressional Primary Challenges<\/a>” (University of Michigan Press) was named one of “The Best Political Science Books We Read in 2013<\/a>” by the National Journal<\/a>. He is the director of research for the National Institute of Civil Discourse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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