Immigration in the United States 2016 presidential debates: a functional analysis by Yaseen, Ahmed Hasani, Mohamad Ali, Afida, Mohd Kasim, Zalina

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Between the turbulent waters of the political world and the placid waters of the apolitical sound: James Comey’s book review. Comey J. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership... by Viktor Lushchak

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The Rise of Donald Trump Right-Wing Populism in the United States: Middle American Radicalism and Anti-Immigration Discourse by Giovanna Campani, Sunamis Fabelo Concepción, Angel Rodriguez Soler, Claudia Sánchez Savín

“…Populism has been an inherent phenomenon in the history of the United States since the beginning of the republic to the present, but it is only in 2016 that a populist leader, Donald Trump, has won the presidential election. …”
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Representation of Ethnic Identity in the 9th and 11th Presidential Elections in Iran: A Case Study of East Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad by Sadegh Panahinasab, Mansour Tabiee

“…Despite recognizing that tribes are pre-state organizations and a distorted form of civil society, they perceive no viable alternative due to the inability of the weak state to establish law and order.Akbari and Fakhari (2016) explored the influence of ethnicity and ethnic identity on the electoral behavior of citizens in Bojnurd. …”
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Divide and Rule: Political Impact of President Trump’s US-Mexico Border Wall Initiative by Paweł Laidler

“… While announcing his participation in 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised, if elected, to build a wall along the US‑Mexican border to limit the flow of illegal immigrants from Latin America to the United States. …”
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Twitter Self-Organization to the Edge of a Phase Transition: Discrete-Time Model and Effective Early Warning Signals in Phase Space by Andrey Dmitriev, Andrey Lebedev, Vasily Kornilov, Victor Dmitriev

“…This research explores precursors for the Twitter self-organization based on the analysis of the behavior of measures directly related to the critical slowdown of the network and measures of the phase space reconstructed by the Takens method for the series of the number of network users creating avalanches of retweets in the network, corresponding to the three debates of the 2016 United States Presidential Election. …”
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Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: Creating Public Sentiment

“…Researchers Sean McElwee of Demos and Jason McDaniel of San Francisco State University explain how racial resentment played a larger role in the 2016 presidential election than the popularly touted economic concerns.8 Their analysis of recent survey data reveals that opinions about how increasing racial diversity will affect American society had more impact on support for the Republican presidential candidate in the 2016 campaign when compared to support for Republican candidates in the previous two presidential elections. …”
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