Edited by: Daniel Jackson, Andrea Carson, Danielle Carver Coombs, Stephanie Edgerly, Einar Thorsen, Filippo Trevisan and Scott Wright

We are pleased to announce the publication of U.S. Election Analysis 2024: Media, Voters and the Campaign

Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign. 

Website: https://www.electionanalysis.ws/us/

PDF: https://bit.ly/USElectionAnalysis2024_Jackson-et_al_v1-COMPRESSED

Table of contents

Section 1: Democracy at stake

1. Trump’s imagined reality is America’s new reality (Prof Sarah Oates)

2. Trump’s threat to American democracy (Prof Pippa Norris)

3. Why does Donald Trump tell so many lies? (Prof Geoff Beattie)

4. Strategic (in)civility in the campaign and beyond (Dr Emily Sydnor)

5. Can America’s democratic institutions hold? (Prof Rita Kirk)

6. How broad is presidential immunity in the United States? (Dr Jennifer L. Selin)

7. Election fraud myths require activation: Evidence from a natural experiment (Dr David E. Silva)

8. What ever happened to baby Q? (Harrison J. LeJeune)

9. We’re all playing Elon Musk’s game now (Dr Adrienne L. Massanari)

10. Peak woke? The end of identity politics? (Prof Timothy J. Lynch)

11. Teaching the 2024 election (Dr Whitney Phillips)

Section 2: Policy and political context

12. The campaigns’ pandemic memory hole (Prof Michael Serazio)

13. America’s kingdom of contempt (Prof Barry Richards)

14. Americanism, not globalism 2.0: Donald Trump and America’s role in the world (Prof Jason A. Edwards)

15. The politics of uncertainty: Mediated campaign narratives about Russia’s war on Ukraine (Dr Tetyana Lokot)

16. The U.S. elections and the future of European security: Continuity or disruption? (Dr Garret Martin)

17. Trump’s victory brings us closer to the new world disorder (Prof Roman Gerodimos)

18. Abortion: Less important to voters than anticipated (Dr Zoë Brigley Thompson)

19. Roe your vote? (Dr Lindsey Meeks)

20. Gender panics, far-right radicalization, and the effectiveness of anti-trans political ads (Dr Thomas J. Billard)

21. U.S. politics and planetary crisis in 2024 (Dr Reed Kurtz)

22. Trump and Musk for all mankind (Prof Einar Thorsen)

23. Guns and the 2024 election (Prof Robert J. Spitzer)

24. Echoes of Trump: Potential shifts in Congress’s communication culture (Dr Annelise Russell)

Section 3: Voters

25. Seeing past the herd: Polls and the 2024 election (Dr Benjamin Toff)

26. On polls and social media (Dr Dorian Hunter Davis)

27. How did gender matter in 2024? (Prof Regina Lawrence)

28. The keys to the White House: Why Allan Lichtman is wrong this time (Tom Fisher)

29. Beyond the rural vote: Economic anxiety and the 2024 presidential election (Dr Amanda Weinstein, Dr Adam Dewbury)

30. Black and independent voters: Which way forward? (Prof Omar Ali)

31. Latino voters in the 2024 election (Dr Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez)

32. Kamala’s key to the polls: The Asian American connection (Nadya Hayasi)

33. The vulnerability of naturalized immigrants and the hero who “will fix” America (Dr Alina E. Dolea)

34. Did Gen Z shape the election? No, because Gen Z doesn’t exist (Dr Michael Bossetta)

35. Cartographic perspectives of the 2024 U.S. election (Prof Benjamin Hennig)

Section 4: Candidates and the campaign

36. The tilted playing field, and a bygone conclusion (Dr David Karpf)

37. Looking forwards and looking back: Competing visions of America in the 2024 presidential campaign (Prof John Rennie Short)

38. Brat went splat: Or the emotional sticky brand won again (Prof Ken Cosgrove)

39. Election 2024: Does money matter anymore? (Prof Cayce Myers)

40. Advertising trends in the 2024 presidential race (Prof Travis N. Ridout, Prof Michael M. Franz, Prof Erika Franklin Fowler)

41. Who won the ground wars? Trump and Harris field office strategies in 2024 (Sean Whyard, Dr Joshua P. Darr)

42. Kamala Harris: Idealisation and persecution (Dr Amy Tatum)

43. Kamala Harris campaign failed to keep Democratic social coalition together (Prof Anup Kumar)

44. Revisiting Indian-American identity in the 2024 U.S. presidential election (Dr Madhavi Reddi)

45. Harris missed an opportunity to sway swing voters by not morally reframing her message (Prof John H. Parmelee)

46. In pursuit of the true populist at the dawn of America’s golden age (Dr Carl Senior)

47. Language and the floor in the 2024 Harris vs Trump televised presidential debate (Dr Sylvia Shaw)

48. Nullifying the noise of a racialized claim: Nonverbal communication and the 2024 Harris-Trump debate (Prof Erik P. Bucy)

49. A pseudo-scientific revolution? The puzzling relationship between science deference and denial (Dr Matt Motta)

50. Amidst recent lows for women congressional candidates, women at the state level thrive (Dr Jordan Butcher)

Section 5: News and journalism

51. The powers that aren’t: News organizations and the 2024 election (Dr Nik Usher)

52. Newspaper presidential endorsements: Silence during consequential moment in history (Dr Kenneth Campbell)

53. Trump after news: a moral voice in an empty room? (Prof Matt Carlson, Prof Sue Robinson, Prof Seth C. Lewis)

54. Under media oligarchy: profit and power trumped democracy once again (Prof Victor Pickard)

55. The challenge of pro-democracy journalism (Prof Stephen D. Reese)

56. Grievance and animosity: Fracturing the digital news ecosystem (Dr Scott A. Eldridge II)

57. Considering the risk of attacks on journalists during the U.S. election (Dr Valerie Belair-Gagnon)

58. What can sentiment in cable news coverage tell us about the 2024 campaign? (Dr Gavin Ploger, Dr Stuart Soroka)

59. The case for happy election news: Why it matters and what stands in the way (Dr Ruth Palmer, Prof Stephanie Edgerly, Prof Emily K. Vraga)

60. Broadcast television use and the 2024 U.S. presidential election (Jessica Maki, Prof Michael W. Wagner)

61. Kamala Harris’ representation in mainstream and Black media (Dr Miya Williams Fayne, Prof Danielle K. Brown)

62. Team Trump and the altercation at the Arlington military cemetery (Dr Natalie Jester)

63. Pulling their punches: On the limits of sports metaphor in political media (Prof Michael L. Butterworth)

Section 6: Digital campaign

64. Reversion to the meme: A return to grassroots content (Dr Jessica Baldwin-Philippi)

65. From platform politics to partisan platforms (Prof Philip M. Napoli, Talia Goodman)

66. The fragmented social media landscape in the 2024 U.S. election (Dr Michael A. Beam, Dr Myiah J. Hutchens, Dr Jay D. Hmielowski)

67. Outside organization advertising on Meta platforms: Coordination and duplicity (Prof Jennifer Stromer-Galley)

68. Prejudice and priming in the online political sphere (Prof Richard Perloff)

69. Perceptions of social media in the 2024 presidential election (Dr Daniel Lane, Dr Prateekshit “Kanu” Pandey)

70. Modeling public Facebook comments on the attempted assassination of President Trump (Dr Justin Phillips, Prof Andrea Carson)

71. The memes of production: Grassroots-made digital content and the presidential campaign (Dr Rosalynd Southern, Dr Caroline Leicht)

72. The gendered dynamics of presidential campaign tweets in 2024 (Prof Heather K. Evans, Dr Jennifer Hayes Clark)

73. Threads and TikTok adoption among 2024 congressional candidates in battleground states (Prof Terri L. Towner, Prof Caroline Muñoz)

74. Who would extraterrestrials side with if they were watching us on social media? (Taewoo Kang, Prof Kjerstin Thorson)

75. AI and voter suppression in the 2024 election (Prof Diana Owen)

76. News from AI: ChatGPT and political information (Dr Caroline Leicht, Dr Peter Finn, Dr Lauren C. Bell, Dr Amy Tatum)

77. Analyzing the perceived humanness of AI-generated social media content around the presidential debate (Dr Tiago Ventura, Rebecca Ansell, Dr Sejin Paik, Autumn Toney, Prof Leticia Bode, Prof Lisa Singh)

Section 7: Popular culture

78. Momentum is a meme (Prof Ryan M. Milner)

79. Partisan memes and how they were perceived in the 2024 U.S. presidential election (Dr Prateekshit “Kanu” Pandey, Dr Daniel Lane)

80. The intersection of misogyny, race, and political memes… America has a long way to go, baby! (Dr Gabriel B. Tait)

81. Needs Musk: Trump turns to the manosphere (Dr Michael Higgins, Prof Angela Smith)

82. “Wooing the manosphere: He’s just a bro.” Donald Trump’s digital transactions with “dude” influencers (Prof Mark Wheeler)

83. Star supporters (Prof John Street)

84. Pet sounds: Celebrity, meme culture and political messaging in the music of election 2024 (Dr Adam Behr)

85. The stars came out for the 2024 election. Did it make a difference? (Mark Turner)

86. Podcasting as presidential campaign outreach (Ava Kalinauskas, Dr Rodney Taveira)

87. Value of TV debates reduced during Trump era (Prof Richard Thomas, Dr Matthew Wall)

88. America’s “fun aunt”: How gendered stereotypes can shape perceptions of women candidates (Dr Caroline Leicht)