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Title:
Obama at the crossroads : politics, markets, and the battle for America's future / edited by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King.
Author:
Jacobs, Lawrence R.

King, Desmond S.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Call Number:
E907 .O215 2012
ISBN:
9780199845361

9780199845385
Physical Description:
x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
pt. 1. Obama at the crossroads -- Varieties of Obamaism : structure, agency and the Obama presidency / Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond S. King -- pt. 2. The legislative crossroads -- Institutional empowerment and strangulation : bureaucratic politics and financial reform in the Obama administration / Daniel P. Carpenter -- Reconstituting the submerged state : the challenge of social policy reform in the Obama era / Suzanne Mettler -- pt. 3. Structural crossroads : political economy and racial orders -- Situating Obama's response to the crisis : finance, regulation, and the American state / Leo Panitch -- Barack Obama's election and America's racial orders / Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King -- pt. 4. Obama's critical juncture -- American renewal and the politics of the new middle America / E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Barack Obama and the angry left : the fight for progressive realism / Lawrence R. Jacobs.
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