Obama at the Crossroads Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future

Name: Obama at the Crossroads Politics, Markets, and the Battle for America's Future
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ISBN: 9780199845385

ISBN-10: 0199845387

ISBN-13: 9780199845385

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lawrence R. Jacobs, Desmond King

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The 2010 election serves as a bookend to one of the remarkable political periods in recent U.S. history. Amidst a profound economic crisis, Americans elected an African American to the presidency and massive Democratic majorities to Congress. Beginning in 2009, the President and Congress put forward a sweeping agenda to both address the economic crisis and enact progressive policies that liberals had been advocating for decades. Within a year and a half, they would pass health care reform and financial reform alongside a stimulus package of nearly a trillion dollars. Democrats also rescued the auto industry via a partial government takeover and expanded the Bush administration's incipient…

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List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Desmond King is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, and Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University.



Acknowledgments


Contributors



Obama at the Crossroads



Varieties of Obamaism: Structure, Agency and the Obama Presidency




The Legislative Crossroads



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




Structural Crossroads: Political Economy and Racial Orders



Situating Obama's Response to the Crisis: Finance, Regulation, and the American State




Barack Obama's Election and Americaï¿½s Racial Orders




Obama's Critical Juncture



American Renewal and the Politics of the New Middle America




BarackObama and the Angry Left: The Fight for Progressive Realism



Index