The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-41032-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Studies of the Americas

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dumbrell, John

Ashbee, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Ashbee is Associate Professor and Program Director of International Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and the author of The Right and the Recession (2015). John Dumbrell is Professor of Government at Durham University, UK. He is the author of  Clinton’s Foreign Policy (2009) and Rethinking the Vietnam War (2012). He is also editor of Issues in American Politics (2014).