Books Details
Author : Kathleen Hall Jamieson Pages : 320 pages Publisher : Oxford University
Press, USA Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0190915811 ISBN-13 : 9780190915810
Books Descriptions
The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over all of the
many controversies that continue to swirl around him to this day. In particular,
was his victory the result of Russian meddling in our political system? Up until
now, the answer to that has been equivocal at best given how difficult it is to
prove. Trump has vociferously denied it, as has Vladimir Putin himself. Even the
famous intelligence reports establishing that the Russians interfered hold back
from saying whether the interference tipped the scales in the outcome.In
Cyberwar, however, the eminent scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who sifted
through a vast amount of polling and voting data, is able to conclude with a
reasonable degree of certainty that Russian help was crucial in elevating Trump
to the Oval Office. Put simply, by changing the behavior of key players and
altering the focus and content of mainstream news, Russian hackers reshaped
the 2016 electoral dynamic. At the same time, Russian trolls
