The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change

This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the 2008 election. Contributors assess the character of zchangey and, within this context, survey the extent to which there was enduring change within particular policy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Ashbee, Edward (-), Dumbrell, John
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2017.
Colección:Studies of the Americas.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction – The Politics of Change
  • Obama's Electoral Record: The Emerging Democratic Majority?
  • Obama and Congress: Change in an Age of Deadlock?
  • The US Supreme Court in the Obama Years
  • Continuity and Change: Immigration Worksite Enforcement during the Bush and Obama Administrations
  • Macroeconomic Policy and Processes of Neoliberalization during the Obama Years
  • Racially Polarised Partisanship and the Obama Presidency
  • Offers and Throffers: Education Policy under Obama
  • Healthy Hunger-free Kids? The US School Lunch Revolution
  • Looking Back on Obama’s Environmental Policy
  • A New ‘War on Poverty’? A Story of Policy Success, Frustration and Restraint
  • Barack Obama and the Return of ‘Declinism’: Rebalancing American Foreign Policy in an Era of Multipolarity
  • Obama and Iran: Explaining Policy Change
  • zHere, We See the Future:y The Obama Administration’s Pivot to Asia.