The Obama presidency and the politics of change / / Edward Ashbee, John Dumbrell, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature, , [2017]; �2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 324.6
• Soggetto topico: Elections; America - Politics and government; Comparative government; Political science; World politics; United States - History; Electoral Politics; American Politics; Comparative Politics; Political Science; Political History; US History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government; United States Social conditions; United States Economic conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): AshbeeEdward; DumbrellJohn <1950->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- “Here, We See the Future:” The Obama Administration’s Pivot to Asia.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 “change” and, within this context, survey the extent to which there was enduring change within particular policy areas, both domestic and foreign. The authors combine empirical detail with more speculative assessment of the limits and possibilities of change amidst a very dense institutional landscape and in an era of intense political polarization. Some see significant changes, the full consequences of which may only be evident in later years. Other authors in the collection present a markedly different picture and suggest that processes of change were not only limited and partial but at times leading the US in directions far removed from the promises of 2008. The book will make an important contribution to the debates about the Obama legacy.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change
• ISBN: 3-319-41033-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150454803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies of the Americas.