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



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Autore: Jacobs Lawrence R Visualizza persona
Titolo: Obama at the Crossroads [[electronic resource] ] : Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future Visualizza cluster
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-
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-59416-0
9786613623997
0-19-984537-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462136203321
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