Institutions under Siege

John L. Campbell is Class of 1925 Professor and Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He is a leading scholar on how institutions and politics affect policymaking and economic performance in advanced capitalist countries. He is the author of several books including American Discontent: The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age (2018) and What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists (2021).

• 1. Institutional Guardrails; 2. Tipping Point; 3. The Big Lie; 4. Reinterpreting Republicanism; 5. Blind Justice?; 6. You're Fired!; 7. Economic Rocket Fuel; 8. Damage Assessment.

'Finally, a thinking person's guide to the damage done by the Trump presidency. Campbell makes a convincing case, grounded in high-quality evidence and innovative thinking about institutional change, that Trump undermined virtually all the key institutions of American democracy in his four norm-smashing years in the White House.' Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University