Dissecting the populist leadership style of President Donald Trump This book evaluates the presidency of Donald Trump from a comparative, historical approach to connect his populist style to his predecessors. Trump's method of communication through social media obviously differs from previous candidates and presidents with populist platforms, but his themes - a disdain for elites, grassroots support, majoritarianism, anti-intellectual discourse, and nativism--borrow variably from such figures as Andrew Jackson, Huey Long, Barry Goldwater, and Ross Perot. As such, Trump's approach to governance falls within a long tradition of populism dating to the 19th Century. Richard S. Conley assesses various aspects of Trump's career, including the nature of his presidential campaign; his post-campaign rallies; his style of governance and reliance on executive unilateralism; and his longstanding core themes, in order to develop a theoretical framework to explicate Trump's singular style of populism. Dr Richard S. Conley is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Florida.

Dr Richard S. Conley is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author and editor of twelve academic books, including Presidential Leadership and National Security: The Obama Legacy and Trump Trajectory. (Routledge, 2017). His main research interests include American presidency, Congress, executive-legislative relations and comparative executives.