Obama at the crossroads : politics, markets, and the battle for America's future /

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...

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Other Authors: Jacobs, Lawrence R. (Editor), King, Desmond S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Obama at the Crossroads
  • Varieties of Obamaism : Structure, Agency and the Obama Presidency / Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond S. King
  • pt. 2. The Legislative Crossroads
  • Finance Politics and Financial Reform in the Obama Administration / Daniel P. Carpenter
  • Reconstituting the Submerged State : The Challenge of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era / Suzanne Metter
  • pt. 3. Structural Crossroads : Political Economy and Racial Orders
  • Situating Obama's Response to the Crisis : Finance, Regulation, and the American State / Leo Panitch
  • Barack Obama's Election and America's Racial Orders / Rogers M. Smith and Desmond S King
  • pt. 4. Obama's Critical Juncture
  • American Renewal and the Politics of the New Middle America / E.J. Dionne Jr.
  • Barack Obama and the Angry Left : The Fight for Progressive Realism / Lawrence R. Jacobs.