Political Features Of The Formation Of Public Opinion In The United States Against The Background Of The 2024 Presidential Election

Authors

  • Ekaterina S. Shevchenko The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration image/svg+xml Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18255/2412-6519-2025-1-46-57

Keywords:

American society, public opinion, political institutions, the US presidential election, D. Trump, J. Biden

Abstract

The development of the US social and political system at the present stage is confronted with some serious objective challenges and threats caused by domestic political problems in the United States and peculiarities of deconstruction of American political and image concepts in the framework of participation in international processes. In this sense, the search and discussion of the most appropriate options for renewing mainly of coordinating procedures and regulative instruments in relation to realization of the US domestic and foreign policy are actualized. It provokes the emergence of respective ideological and communicational collisions at the level of the US political leadership. The acceptance of proposed political projects by American community and the provision of political interaction between society and state in the United States are also problematized. As a result, loss of public confidence in the decisions and actions of the US political elite and disappointment with concrete results of political activity of the current US president are observed. In the end, an understanding is formed that the conduction of the 2024 presidential campaign more obviously and problematically has revealed systemic contradictions and conflicts in the United States that require not only a formulation of compromise models of social and political communication, but also a revision of the methodology of American sociological researches.

Author Biography

  • Ekaterina S. Shevchenko, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
    Cand. Sc. (Politics)

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2025-03-15

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Political Science