The Necro-President

This Brief develops the necro-president as a figure through which the collapse of American political life becomes visible. In our present moment of political upheaval, the necro-president reflects how death, not law or the people, has come to shape the meaning of the presidency. The office, once ima...

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Donald Trump
Joe Biden
institutional decay
institutional corruption
Trumpism
necro-president
governance collapse
Republican theory
constitutional rot
Far-right politics
republican decline
democratic erosion
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
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Donald Trump
Joe Biden
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governance collapse
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constitutional rot
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republican decline
democratic erosion
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