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Bitecofer documents the many unprecedented aspects of the 2016 presidential primaries and general election. The historic candidacies of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders broke barriers and redefined our understanding of American presidential campaigns. Bitecofer analyzes the 2016 presidential election through the eyes of a political scientist. Drawing on decades of political science research on presidential campaigns, voting behavior, and political polarization, Bitecofer examines the strategic considerations made by the candidates and their campaigns as they battled first for their party’s nomination and then for the White House.
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Bitecofer, R. (2018). Introduction. In: The Unprecedented 2016 Presidential Election . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61976-7_1
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