To what extent did the Obama administration create the political economic and social environment for the election of populist leader Donald Trump
Topic: “To what extent did the Obama administration create the political, economic and social environment for the election of populist leader Donald Trump?”
Sources: 5
Format: MLA
1) Intro ( 5 pages)
● (±0.75p) Introduction about the United States
○ What is the country like?
○ Why is it important to talk about the United States?
● (±0.75p) Introduction about populism
○ What does populism mean?
○ Why is timely to talk about populism?
● (±0.75p) Introduction about Barack Obama
○ Who is Barack Obama?
○ What is he known for?
● (±0.75p) Introduction about Donald Trump
○ Who is Donald Trump?
○ What is he known for?
● (±0.5p) Why analyze the previous President in order to better understand the election of the next?
● (±0.5p) Why is it important to analyze all three factors (political, economic and social)?
● (±1p) Why is it timely to write an essay about this topic?
● Thesis statement: The election of populist leader Donald Trump can not be directly attributed to the actions of the American government under Barack Obama, but rather to the long-standing tensions of the economic and political exclusion of vulnerable voter groups in the past decades.
○ ^ This thesis statement is just an example based on the first steps of research. It is up for debate until the analysis has been done and should only be written afterwards. It could very well be that Obama contributed factors x and y, but we attribute factor y to cause z.
○ Sub-thesis 1: Donald Trump can be classified as a populist leader because of x, y and z.
○ Sub-thesis 2: The factors in American society that lead to the election of a populist leader are x, y and z.
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