The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change

Book Overview

Tables and FiguresNote1. Edward Ashbee and John Dumbrell: Introduction - The Politics of Change
2. Philip J Davies: Obama's Electoral Record: The Emerging Democratic Majority?
3. David Morgan: Obama and Congress: Change in an Age of Deadlock?
4. Helen J. Knowles, Steven B. Lichtman, Brandon T. Metroka: The US Supreme Court in the Obama Years
5. Camille Marienbach and Andrew Wroe: Continuity and Change: Immigration Worksite Enforcement during the Bush and Obama Administrations
6. Edward Ashbee: Macroeconomic Policy and Processes of Neoliberalization during the Obama Years
7. Richard Johnson: Racially Polarised Partisanship and the Obama Presidency
8. Ursula Hackett: Offers and Throffers: Education Policy under Obama
9. Clodagh Harrington: Healthy Hunger-free Kids? The US School Lunch Revolution
10. John C. Berg: Looking Back on Obama's Environmental Policy
11. Alex Waddan: A New 'War on Poverty'? A Story of Policy Success, Frustration and Restraint
12. Andrew Moran: Barack Obama and the Return of 'Declinism': Rebalancing American Foreign Policy in an Era of Multipolarity
13. Steven Hurst: Obama and Iran: Explaining Policy Change
14. Niels Bjerre-Poulsen: "Here, We See the Future: " The Obama Administration's Pivot to Asia
Dean McSweeney: Afterword
About the Contributors

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319410326
• ISBN13: 9783319410326
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 6.4"