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课程名称：美国总统的产生：五次选举的简史 概述：随着唐纳德·特朗普就任美国第四十五任总统，本课程通过五个案例研究，从历史角度探讨总统选举。课程讲述了美国历史上几个关键竞选的故事，并借此研究政治如何随时间变化，以及了解过去如何为当前活动提供启示。从“肮脏政治”的出现到“数字革命”的影响，课程关注了影响2016年备受争议的选举的历史背景。 我们将研究的五次选举是美国政治历史上最重要的事件之一。1800年，托马斯·杰斐逊在一场促使政治家改革选举团的竞选中赢得了总统职位；1860年，亚伯拉罕·林肯的当选引发了内战，这次选举帮助我们理解政党的发展；1968年，越南战争是美国人关注的焦点，但在理查德·尼克松的胜利中，外交政策却处于次要地位；1980年，罗纳德·里根赢得了一次标志着新的保守主义时代的选举；最后，我们将关注2008年奥巴马当选白宫的竞选，许多人认为奥巴马的成功不仅展示了数字革命对选举政治的影响，也标志着进步主义的转变。 课程大纲： 第一部分：1860年选举 描述：在四位候选人争夺总统宝座的1860年，亚伯拉罕·林肯的当选促使南卡罗来纳州脱离联邦，成立了美利坚联盟国，并引发了内战。研究1860年选举有助于我们理解美国政治中政党、投票和激进主义的发展。 第二部分：1980年选举 描述：1980年选举被视为现代美国拥抱保守主义的标志，这一趋势至今仍在影响国家和世界。研究1980年选举有助于我们理解保守主义在经济和外交政策上的流行原因，以及里根是如何成为右派强有力代言人的。 第三部分：2016年选举 描述：对于2016年总统选举的历史尚未有定论（而去年的选举并不在我们课程的五个核心中），但历史如何帮助我们理解克林顿与特朗普的竞选及其结果？作为“美国总统的产生”的总结，我们也将反思历史的相似性和不连续性。
Part: 1
Title:The Election of 1860
Description:With four candidates seeking the White House in 1860, the election of Abraham Lincoln prompted South Carolina's secession, the establishment of the Confederate States of America, and the Civil War. Exploring the 1860 election helps us to understand the development of political parties, voting, and radicalism in American politics.
Part: 2
Title:The Election of 1980
Description:The election of 1980 is often seen as marking modern America's embrace of conservatism, in a manner that still shapes the nation and the world today. Examining the 1980 election helps us to understand why conservative ideas on the economy and foreign policy gained popularity, and why Reagan proved a powerful salesperson for the Right.
Part: 3
Title:The Election of 2016
Description:It is too soon to tell the history of the 2016 presidential election (and so last year's election is not one of the five that are at the heart of our course), but how does does history help us to understand the Clinton-Trump contest and its outcome? By way of concluding "The Making of the US President," we reflect on historical parallels (and discontinuities).
As Donald Trump takes office as the forty-fifth president of the United States, this course explores presidential elections in historical perspective, via five case studies. It tells the story of key campaigns in US history, and by doing so it investigates how politics changed over time—and how understanding the past sheds light on the current campaign. From the arrival of "dirty politics" to the impact of the "digital revolution," the course looks at the historical background to some of the key phenomena that shaped the controversy-laden campaign of 2016. The five elections that we'll investigate are among the most significant in American political history. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson won the presidency in a contest that encouraged politicians to reform the electoral college, the system by which presidents are still chosen. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 prompted the outbreak of the Civil War. It's an election that helps us to understand the development of political parties. In 1968, the Vietnam War was a dominant concern for Americans, and yet foreign policy played a secondary role in Richard Nixon's victory. Twelve years later, in 1980, Ronald Reagan won an election that initiated a new era of conservatism. Finally, we'll turn our attention to the election that took Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, to the White House in 2008. Many saw the Obama's success not only as revealing the impact of the digital revolution on campaign politics, but also as signaling a turn to progressivism. Image credits: Course logo - "Former President Truman holds a copy of the famous Chicago Daily Tribune paper declaring 'Dewey Defeats Truman'" Harry S. Truman Library & Museum (https://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=38592). Course banner - "US Flag Backlit" by Joshua Nathanson, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Flag_Backlit.jpg).
