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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796033103321

Titolo

A transformation in American national politics : the presidential election of 2012 / / edited by Douglas M. Brattebo, Tom Lansford, Jack Covarrubias

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Akron, Ohio : , : The University Of Akron Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-62922-005-1

1-62922-004-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

324.973/0932

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - 2012

United States Politics and government 2009-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Dedication ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Introduction; I. Campaigning and Geography; Chapter 2: The Obama White House's Transition from Governing to Campaigning; Chapter 3: A Heartbeat Away: The Strategic Importance of Paul Ryan and Joe Biden in the 2012 Presidential Election; Chapter 4: The Political Geography of the 2012 Presidential Election; Chapter 5: The Republican Advantage Continues: The 2012 Election in the South; Chapter 6: The 2012 Presidential Race in Battleground Florida: Changing Demographics Challenge the Obama and Romney Campaigns

II. Domestic and Economic PolicyChapter 7: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt": Using the Past to Win the Present; Chapter 8: Health Care in the 2012 Election; Chapter 9: The Obama Regulatory Record: Partisanship, Perception, and the 2012 Election; Chapter 10: Conspicuous Silence: Global Climate Change and the 2012 Presidential Election; III. Foreign Policy; Chapter 11: American Exceptionalism and the Elections of 1976, 1980, and 2012; Chapter 12: President Obama's National Security and Counterterrorism Strategy and the Presidential Election of 2012

Chapter 13: The Obama Administration's Homeland Security Record as a 2012 Campaign IssueChapter 14: U.S. Foreign Policy and Global



Change in the 2012 Presidential Election; Contributors; Index