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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. * Cindy Simon Rosenthal, Emeritus Presidential Professor and Director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma * By considering how 2016 congressional candidates navigatedmasculinity and femininity given the larger gender dynamics of the2016 presidential election, Boatright and Sperling make an important contribution to the fields of both gender and electoralpolitics. * Melissa Deckman, author of Tea Party Women * Trumping Politics as Usual offers a fresh and timely perspective on the historic 2016 election, uniting an original analysis of the presidential race with a compelling examination of the battle for control of the U.S. House and Senate. * Kira Sanbonmatsu, Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University *

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Robert G. Boatright is Professor of Political Science at Clark University and the Director of Research at the National Institute for Civil Discourse at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the effects of campaign and election laws on the behavior of politicians and interest groups, with a particular focus on primary elections and campaign finance laws and practices. He is the author or editor of seven books, including The Deregulatory Moment? A Comparative Perspective on Changing Campaign Finance Laws, Getting Primaried: The Causes and Consequences of Congressional Primary Challenges, and Interest Groups and Campaign Finance Reform in the United States and Canada. Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University. Her research interests lie mainly at the intersection of Russian politics and gender studies. She is a co-author of Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights, and the author of Sex, Politics, & Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia, Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability, and Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia.

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