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Obama's fractured legacy : the politics and policies of an embattled presidency /
Featuring a range of experts on the American presidency, this book offers both European and American perspectives on both the successes and failures of President Obama's tenure in the White House. Focusing primarily on domestic policy, these essays explain why Obama's widely anticipated mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | New perspectives on the American presidency.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Obama and the exhaustion of progressive presidentialism
- Part 1: INSTITUTIONS
- 1. Barack Obama and the promise of transformative leadership
- 2. Obama and the administrative presidency: Finding new meanings in old laws
- 3. Congressional gridlock reconsidered: The emergence of a "conducive coalition"?
- 4. Federalism: Barack Obama's accidental devolution revolution
- Part 2: POLICIES
- 5. "Our immigration system is broken": Barack Obama and the challenge of comprehensive immigration reform
- 6. War and peace in cyberspace: Obama's multifaceted legacy
- 7. A decent-sized foundation: Obama's urban policy
- 8. From Clinton to Obama to Trump: The politics and political economy of health insurance reform
- Part 3: MOVEMENT POLITICS
- 9. Criticize and thrive: The American left in the Obama years
- 10. "Stop killing us": Mobilizing against structural racism in the United States from Black Lives Matter to the Movement for Black Lives
- 11. The Obama administration's labor and employment legacy
- 12. Why wasn't there a twenty-first-century "new" New Deal? Historical perspectives for the hope for and reality of Obama's presidency
- 13. Coda
- Obama's fractured legacy
- Bibliography
- Index