Obama at the crossroads : politics, markets, and the battle for America's future / edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, c2012
Descript
x, 196 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Varieties of Obamaism: structure, agency and the Obama presidency -- Institutional empowerment and strangulation: bureaucratic politics and financial reform in the Obama administration -- Reconstituting the submerged state: the challenges of social policy reform in the Obama era -- Situating Obama's response to the crisis: finance, regulation, and the American state -- Barack Obama's election and America's racial orders -- American renewal and the politics of the new Middle America -- Barack Obama and the angry left: the fight for progressive realism
SUBJECT
Obama
Barack
1961- -- Political and social views
Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Health care reform -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Race -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 21st century