Obama’s Fractured Legacy

The Politics and Policies of an Embattled Presidency

AvFrançois Vergniolle de Chantal

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Featuring a range of experts on the American presidency, this book offers both European and American perspectives on both the successes and failures of President Obama’s tenure in the White House. Focusing primarily on domestic policy, these essays explain why Obama's widely anticipated moment of change did not fully materialise. The Obama presidency navigated partisan and institutional obstacles, but quickly lost its 2008 momentum. These developments illustrate the weakening of the institutional Presidency in a larger context of polarised politics. Many of the fault lines of American society were thus left largely unaddressed, paving the way for the Trump campaign in 2016.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 30 mm
Vikt:682 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Perspectives on the American Presidency
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474454940
Utmärkelser:Joint winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2021 (UK)

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François Vergniolle de Chantal is Professor of American Politics and Government at Université de Paris. He is the author and editor of several books on the US presidency in both French and English. He is the author of L’impossible présidence impériale: Le contrôle législatif aux États-Unis (CNRS Éditions Paris, 2016). His research focuses on US political institutions, American Congress, and ideologies and political thought.

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This is a well-researched and well-written assessment of the Obama presidency, and a perceptive analysis of the impact of polarized politics on American government and democracy. Summing Up: Highly recommended.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Obama and the Exhaustion of Progressive PresidentialismFrançois Vergniolle de Chantal and Jean-Christian VinelPart I: Institutions1. Reflections on Obama’s Leadership and the Prospects for Political Change in 21st Century AmericaSteven Skowronek 2. The Obama Administrative Presidency. Finding New Meanings in Old LawsAndrew Rudalevige3. Congressional Gridlock Reconsidered. The Emergence of a ‘Conducive Coalition’?Alix Meyer4. Obama’s Legacy for FederalismThad KousserPart II: Policies5. Obama and the Never-ending Struggle for Immigration ReformIsabelle Vagnoux6. War and Peace in CyberspaceFrédérick Douzet and Aude Géry 7. Barack Obama’s Urban PolicyThomas Sugrue 8. From Clinton to Obama. The Politics and Political Economy of Health Insurance ReformNelson LichtensteinPart III: Movement Politics9. Criticize and Thrive. The American Left in the Obama YearsMichael Kazin10. Black Lives Matter: Mobilizing Against Structural Racism in the Age of ObamaAudrey Célestine and Nicolas Martin Breteau11. The Obama Administration’s Labor and Employment LegacyDavid Bensman and Donna Kesselman12. A 21st Century New ‘New Deal’? Historical Perspectives for the Hopes and Reality of Obama’s PresidencyElizabeth T. Shermer13. Coda – Obama’s Fractured LegacySidney MilkisBibliography, Index