Democracy amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, and Persuasion

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Democracy amid Crises
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Contents
Preface
List of IOD Collaborative Members
1. An Election Shaped by Crises
2. What Fundamental Factors Shape Elections?
3. Not One Electorate, but Many: The Multiple Electorates of 2020
4. The Electorates’ Communication Dynamics
5, Part 1. Did the COVID-​19 Pandemic Sink Trump’s Reelection? How Trump and Biden Approached the Pandemic
5, Part 2. Did the COVID-​19 Pandemic Sink Trump’s Reelection? How the Virus Shaped the Election
6, Part 1. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The 2020 Economy and the 2020 Election
6, Part 2. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Perceptions and Effects of the Economy
7, Part 1. Law and Order vs. Law and Order with Racial Justice: Debating How to Understand the Summer’s Protests
7, Part 2. Law and Order vs. Law and Order with Racial Justice: The Effect of the Campaign and Racialized Events on Attitudes and Vote Choice
8. A Deeper Anxiety: Was Status Threat at Play in 2020?
9, Part 1. “Stop the Steal”: The Rhetoric of Electoral Delegitimacy
9, Part 2. “Stop the Steal”: Effects of the Assaults on Electoral and Democratic Legitimacy
10. A Republic, if You Can Keep It
Appendix: Our Data and Analytical Strategy
Notes
Index