Obama on the Home Front : Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks / John D. Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, John D. (John David), 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--2009-.

United States.

Obama, Barack.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The best comprehensive review of the Obama administration's policies available, " by the author of Bush on the Home Front (Daniel P. Franklin, author of Pitiful Giants: Presidents in their Final Term ). Barack Obama came into office as the economy was careening into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. On the political front, he would be challenged by the same intense congressional polarization faced by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, now exacerbated by the rise of the Tea Party movement. In this comprehensive assessment of domestic policymaking, John D. Graham considers what we may learn from the Obama presidency about how presidents can best implement their agendas when Congress is evenly divided. What did Obama pledge to do in domestic policy and what did he actually accomplish? Why did some initiatives succeed and others fail? Did Obama's policies contribute to the losses experienced by the Democratic Party in 2010 and 2014? In carefully documented case studies of economic policy, health care reform, energy and environmental policy, and immigration reform, Graham asks whether Obama was effective at accomplishing his agenda. Counterfactuals are analyzed to suggest ways that Obama might have been even more effective than he was and at less political cost to his party. As with the author's acclaimed Bush on the Home Front, this book elaborates and applies a theory of presidential effectiveness in a polarized political environment.

Contents:

Barack Obama's assets and constraints

Presidential effectiveness when Congress is polarized

Preventing collapse, stimulating recovery

Promoting long-term growth, reducing inequality

The Affordable Care Act: legislative victory

The Affordable Care Act: implementation nightmare

Global warming warrior

Driller in chief

Deporter in chief?

Midterm massacres

A counterfactual Obama presidency.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253021151

0253021154

OCLC:

948669177