The Obama Presidency (eBook, ePUB)

Change and Continuity
Redaktion: Dowdle, Andrew; Maranto, Robert; Raemdonck, Dirk C. van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely volume of notable thinkers on the presidency presents scholarly as well as applied insights on Obama's administration at the half-way point. Assessing the political context of his first two years, the inter-branch relations, and policy developments all provide the necessary grounding for students to make sense of the continuity and change that Barack Obama represents.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136829857
• Artikelnr.: 38270176

Autorenporträt

Andrew Dowdle is the editor of the American Review of Politics and the Vice-Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Arkansas. Dirk C. van Raemdonck is Graduate Coordinator and Chief of Staff at the Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas. Robert Maranto is the 21st Century Chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, and previously taught political science at Villanova University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Setting 1. Barack Obama: A Reagan of the Left? Andrew Dowdle,
Dirk C. van Raemdonck, and Robert Maranto 2. Making Race Go Away President
Obama and the Promise of a Post-Racial Society Wilbur C. Rich 3.
Presidential Leadership and Public Opinion in an Age of Polarization
Jeffrey E. Cohen and Costas Panagopoulos Part 2: Managing the Executive
Branch 4. The Obama Cabinet: A Team of Rivals or Pragmatic Governance?
Shirley Anne Warshaw 5. Presidential Appointments in the Obama
Administration: An Early Evaluation David E. Lewis 6. President Barack
Obama, Unilateralist Christopher S. Kelley, Melanie Cook Marlowe, and Ryan
J. Barilleaux 7. Continuity and Change in White House Communications:
President Obama Meets the Press Martha Joynt Kumar Part 3: Managing
Relations with the Other Branches 8. No Place for a Community Organizer:
Barack Obama's Leadership of Congress Justin S. Vaughn 9. Beyond Two Terms:
Shaping the Supreme Court and a Legacy Richard L. Pacelle, Jr. Part 4:
Managing Policies 10. Economic Policymaking During the Great Recession Ted
Gayer 11. President Obama's Health Care Reform: The Inevitable Impossible
Mark Carl Rom 12. President Obama and Education: The Personal and the
Political Robert Maranto and Michael Q. McShane 13. Fighting Two Wars
Lawrence J. Korb and Laura Conley Part 5: At the End of the Beginning:
Judging President Obama 14. Barack Obama's First Two Years: Policy
Accomplishments, Political Failure William A. Galston