Institutions under Siege Donald Trump s Attack on the Deep State 1st Edition by John L Campbell ISBN 9781009170185 100917018X

1 Institutional Guardrails

1.1 What Others Have Said

1.2 What’s an Institution?

1.3 Institutional Change

1.4 Tipping Points

1.5 Leadership

1.6 Resistance and Power

1.7 Incremental vs. Radical Change

1.8 A Look Ahead

2 The Tipping Point

2.1 The Economy

2.2 Race and Ethnicity

2.3 Ideology

2.4 Political Polarization

2.5 Institutions

2.6 The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back

2.7 The Rise of Donald Trump

2.8 Conclusion

3 The Big Lie

3.1 A Tipping Point Develops

3.2 Lawsuits Galore

3.3 Disregarding the Law

3.4 The Russians are Coming

3.5 The Erosion of Public Confidence

3.6 Legitimation Meltdown

3.7 Attacking the Census

3.8 Conclusion

4 Reinterpreting Republicanism

4.1 Civility Abandoned

4.2 Culture Wars

4.3 The Republican Civil War

4.4 A Very Tight Grip

4.5 Bipartisanship in Retreat

4.6 Conclusion

5 Blind Justice?

5.1 A Judicial Tipping Point

5.2 Stacking the Deck

5.3 Supreme Court Appointments

5.4 A Bully in the Bully Pulpit

5.5 Reorienting the Judiciary

5.6 Reorienting the Justice Department

5.7 Resistance at the Justice Department

5.8 Conclusion

6 You’re Fired!

6.1 A Tipping Point and the Numbers

6.2 Quantity vs. Quality

6.3 Schedule F

6.4 Administrative Churning

6.5 Disdain for Expertise

6.6 The COVID-19 Pandemic

6.7 Conclusion

7 Economic Rocket Fuel

7.1 Tax Cuts

7.2 Failed Promises and Unintended Consequences

7.3 The Budget

7.4 The Pandemic

7.5 Inflation and the Dollar

7.6 Conclusion

8 Damage Assessment

8.1 A Quick Review

8.2 Radical or Incremental Change?

8.3 How Bad Is the Damage?

8.4 It Could Have Been Worse

8.5 Generalizing the Argument

8.6 Further Lessons for Institutional Theory

References

Index