This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the 2008 election. Contributors assess the character of "change" and, within this context, survey the extent to which there was enduring change within particular policy areas, both domestic and foreign. The authors combine empirical detail with more speculative assessment of the limits and possibilities of change amidst a very dense institutional landscape and in an era of intense political polarization. Some see significant changes, the full consequences of which may only be evident in later years. Other authors in the collection present a markedly different picture and suggest that processes of change were not only limited and partial but at times leading the US in directions far removed from the promises of 2008. The book will make an important contribution to the debates about the Obama legacy.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2016

ISBN

9783319410333

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Political Campaigns & Elections

Index

Politics & International Relations

Note
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Politics of Change
Chapter 2: Obama’s Electoral Record: The Emerging Democratic Majority?
Chapter 3: The Obama White House and Congress
Chapter 4: The US Supreme Court in the Obama Years
Chapter 5: Continuity and Change: Immigration Worksite Enforcement in the Bush and Obama Administrations
Chapter 6: Macroeconomic Policy and Processes of Neoliberalization During the Obama Years
Chapter 7: Racially Polarised Partisanship and the Obama Presidency
Chapter 8: Offers and Throffers: Education Policy under Obama
Chapter 9: Healthy Hunger-free Kids? The US School Lunch Revolution
Chapter 10: Obama and the Environment
Chapter 11: A New “War on Poverty”? A Story of Policy Success, Frustration and Restraint
Chapter 12: Barack Obama and the Return of ‘Declinism’: Rebalancing American Foreign Policy in an Era of Multipolarity
Chapter 13: Obama and Iran: Explaining Policy Change
Chapter 14: “Here, We See the Future”: The Obama Administration’s Pivot to Asia
Chapter 15: Afterword: The American Politics Group (Political Studies Association, UK)
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