Obama at the Crossroads [[electronic resource] ] : Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future

• Autore: Jacobs Lawrence R
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.973; 973.932092
• Soggetto topico: 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-
• Altri autori: KingDesmond
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Obama at the Crossroads
• ISBN: 0-19-994278-1; 1-280-59416-0; 9786613623997; 0-19-984537-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789951303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II