The Obama Presidency

Promise and Performance
Herausgeber: Crotty, William

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive analysis of the Obama presidency, its actions in office and its policy directions. The changes in orientation and policy directions that took place are both accounted for and explained in a policy and political context as are their consequences for the institution of the presidency itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780739172346
• ISBN-10: 0739172344
• Artikelnr.: 35108943

Autorenporträt

Edited by William Crotty - Contributions by John C. Berg; R. Lawrence Butler; Bruce E. Caswell; William Crotty; Maureen F. Moakley; James A. Morone; Shayla C. Nunnally; Arthur C. Paulson and Lawrence C. Reardon

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Representation and Counter-Representation in the Obama
Presidency by William Crotty Chapter 2: Obama By The Numbers: A Comparison
With Pre-vious Presidencies by Bruce E. Caswell Chapter 3: Obama's Health
Reform: The Managerial President and the Political Storm by James A. Morone
Chapter 4: Environmental Policy: The Success and Failure of the Obama
Presidency by John C. Berg Chapter 5: Shifting Global Paradigms and Obama's
Adaptive Foreign Policy by Lawrence C. Reardon Chapter 6: African-American
Perspectives of the Obama Presidency by Shayla C. Nunnally Chapter 7:
Minority Party Strategies and Political Successes in Opposition to the
Obama Policy Agenda by R. Lawrence Butler Chapter 8: Coalitional Divisions
and Realignment Dynamics in the Obama Era by Arthur C. Paulson Chapter 9:
Recalibrating the Obama Presidency: The Off-Year Elections and Their
Consequence by Maureen F. Moakley Chapter 10: Principles and Pragmatism in
the Obama Presidency by William Crotty