U.S 2016 Presidential Election and Post Electoral Violence: How Consolidated Is U.S Democracy Today?
Journal Title: IOSR journal of Business and Management - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 4
Abstract
United States of America, the most acclaimed strongest consolidated democratic country in the world had her Presidential election on the 8th November, 2016. The Presidential election was declared in favour of Donald Trump after having met the constitutional requirements, especially the ―needed, a must win of a minimum vote of 270 out of the 538 Electoral College votes‖. Trump was sworn-in as the 45th President of the United States of America on the 20th January, 2017. However, immediately after Trump was declared Presidentelected by the electoral management board, there went up a flame arising from post presidential electoral violence. As a result, there has been a contending on-going debate among academics, particularly political scientists as to whether or not America still retains her position as the strongest consolidated democratic state in the world. The present study, therefore using an explanatory research method and content analysis were necessary answers two basic questions which include one, what are the causes of the 2016 post presidential electoral violence in the United States of America?; Two, is the United States of America still a consolidated democratic state after the 2016 post presidential electoral violence? Findings emerged accordingly based on the two research questions. For question 1 it is noted that the major causes of the post presidential electoral violence is victory of Donald Trump as the winner of the 2016 presidential election instead of Hillary Clinton amongst others while, for question 2, it is upheld that America still retains its status as a respected consolidated democratic State.
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Odoh Patrick Abutu, Salisu Abubakar
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