Evaluating the Obama presidency : from transformational goals to governing realities /
In 2007 and 2008, Barack Obama ran for president with a message of a shared purpose uniting all Americans, and was elected with expectations that he would usher in a new national culture under an approach grounded in public engagement that would transcend partisan divisions. But in an institutional...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2024]
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| Series: | De Gruyter series in presidential politics, leadership, and policy making ;
volume 1 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Evaluating the Obama Presidency
- Part I: Winning Elections and Building Political Coalitions
- Chapter 2 The Transformation of Presidential Fundraising During the Obama Years
- Chapter 3 The Obama Coalition's Kryptonite: Ralph Stanley, Bruce Springsteen, and the White Working Class
- Part II: Planning, Governance, and Policy Making
- Chapter 4 Why Health Care Came First, and Other Observations on Barack Obama's Early Domestic Policy Agenda
- Chapter 5 A Green Presidency? Barack Obama and the Environment
- Chapter 6 Obama's Domestic Policy Making and the Administrative Presidency
- Chapter 7 Developing a Bench: President Obama's Judicial Appointment Legacy
- Chapter 8 Women and the Obama Administration: Gender Policy at Home and Abroad
- Chapter 9 The US and Russia during the Obama Administration: An Inevitable Return of Great Power Politics?
- Chapter 10 The Obama Legacy on Nuclear Weapons: Transformative Vision, Pragmatic Results
- Chapter 11 Why Ask? Presidential Leverage and Obama's Decision to Seek Congressional Authorization for the Use of Force against Syria
- Part III: Communication, Executive Power, and Leadership
- Chapter 12 Obama, the Pen, and the Phone: Promises to Policies
- Chapter 13 The Genius of America and the Model Immigrant: Barack Obama's Rhetorical Characterization of DACA Recipients
- Chapter 14 Race, Representation, and Reaction in the Obama Presidency
- Chapter 15 Obama's Presidency: Redemption and the Misdirected Search for Presidential Greatness
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Index