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"Tidak pernah terbayangkan sebelumnya bahwa generasi penerus dari masa perbudakan, akhirnya memenangkan Pemilu dan memimpin bangsa Amerika secara demokratis. Kecerdasan bangsa Amerika dan kesadaran berkonstitusilah yang memungkinkan hal tersebut terjadi. Tetapi faktor emosi sangat mempengaruhi hasil Pemilu Amerika Serikat ini. Obama telah memanfaatkan semaksimal mungkin pendekatan emosional ini kepada para pemilih kulit berwarna dan kulit putih sekaligus dalam setiap kampanyenya. Ditambah serangan-serangan kasar oleh kubu Mc Cain, terutama oleh Sarah Palin, yang tidak dibahas oleh kubu Obama, telah menyentuh secara emosional perasaan sebagian besar para pemilih untuk memihak Obama."

""Believe me" may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump's lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting the Christian heritage, the refrain is constant. And to the surprise of many, about 80% percent of white evangelicals have believed Trump-at least enough to help propel him into the White House. Historian John Fea is not surprised-and in Believe Me he explains how we have arrived at this unprecedented moment in American politics. An evangelical Christian himself, Fea argues that the embrace of Donald Trump is the logical outcome of a long-standing evangelical approach to public life defined by the politics of fear, the pursuit of worldly power, and a nostalgic longing for an American past. In the process, Fea challenges his fellow believers to replace fear with hope, the pursuit of power with humility, and nostalgia with history."

"Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people better off, but unacceptable - and illegal - to pay people for their votes? Why do parties often lavish benefits on loyal voters, whose support they can count on anyway, rather than on responsive swing voters? Why is vote buying and machine politics common in today's developing democracies but a thing of the past in most of today's advanced democracies? This book develops a theory of broker-mediated distribution to answer these questions, testing the theory with research from four developing democracies, and reviews a rich secondary literature on countries in all world regions. The authors deploy normative theory to evaluate whether clientelism, pork-barrel politics, and other non-programmatic distributive strategies can be justified on the grounds that they promote efficiency, redistribution, or voter participation."