Looking Back on President Barack Obama’s Legacy

Wilbur C. Rich is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats (1982), Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (1989), Black Mayors and School Politics (1996), David Dinkins and New York City Politics: Race, Images and the Media (2007), and The Post-Racial Society is Here: Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State (2015).

• Introduction: Barack Obama and the Transformational Impulse.- The Obama Legacy in American Electoral Participation.- Managing a Regime in Crisis: The Twilight of Neoliberalism and the Politics of Economic Recovery During the First Year of the Obama Administration.- The Obama Health Care Legacy: The Origins, Implementation, and Effort to Repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2010.- Appraising the Foreign Policy Legacy of the Obama Presidency.- The World We Have Lost: US Labor in the Obama Years.- Swimming the Multiple Currents: The Political and Racial Time of Barack Obama’s Presidency.- The Legacy of President Obama in the U.S. Supreme Court.- 9. The Obama Administration's Global Warming Legacy: Going with the Flow and the Politics of Failure.- Unfulfilled Hopes: President Obama’s Legacy.- Conclusion: Who was President Barack Obama?.