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Autore |
Jacobs Lawrence R |
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Titolo |
Obama at the Crossroads [[electronic resource] ] : Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-994278-1 |
1-280-59416-0 |
9786613623997 |
0-19-984537-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century |
Health care reform -- United States -- History -- 21st century |
Obama, Barack -- Political and social views |
Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 21st century |
Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 21st century |
Race -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century |
United States -- Economic policy -- 2009- |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009- |
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009- |
United States -- Social policy -- 1993- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; PART I: Obama at the Crossroads; 1. Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency and the Obama Presidency; PART II: The Legislative Crossroads; 2. Institutional Empowerment and Strangulation: Bureaucratic Politics and Financial Reform in the Obama Administration; 3. Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era; PART III: Structural Crossroads: Political Economy and Racial Orders; 4. Situating Obama's Response to the Crisis: Finance, Regulation, and the American State |
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5. Barack Obama's Election and America's Racial OrdersPART IV: Obama's Critical Juncture; 6. American Renewal and the Politics of the New Middle America; 7. Barack Obama and the Angry Left: The Fight for Progressive Realism; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent U.S. history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans elected an African American to the presidency and massive Democratic majorities to Congress. Beginning in 2009, the President and Congress put forward a sweeping agenda to both address the economic crisis and enact progressive policies that liberals had been advocating for decades. Within a year and a half, they would pass health care reform and financial reform alongside a stimulus package of nearly a trillion dollars. Democrats also rescued the |
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