The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change

1. Introduction: The Politics of Change
Edward Ashbee, John Dumbrell

2. Obama’s Electoral Record: The Emerging Democratic Majority?
Philip J. Davies

3. The Obama White House and Congress
J David Morgan

4. The US Supreme Court in the Obama Years
Helen J. Knowles, Steven B. Lichtman, Brandon T. Metroka

5. Continuity and Change: Immigration Worksite Enforcement in the Bush and Obama Administrations
Camille Marienbach, Andrew Wroe

6. Macroeconomic Policy and Processes of Neoliberalization During the Obama Years
Edward Ashbee

7. Racially Polarised Partisanship and the Obama Presidency
Richard Johnson

8. Offers and Throffers: Education Policy under Obama
Ursula Hackett

9. Healthy Hunger-free Kids? The US School Lunch Revolution
Clodagh Harrington

10. Obama and the Environment
John C. Berg

11. A New “War on Poverty”? A Story of Policy Success, Frustration and Restraint
Alex Waddan

12. Barack Obama and the Return of ‘Declinism’: Rebalancing American Foreign Policy in an Era of Multipolarity
Andrew Moran

13. Obama and Iran: Explaining Policy Change
Steven Hurst

14. “Here, We See the Future”: The Obama Administration’s Pivot to Asia
Niels Bjerre-Poulsen

15. Afterword: The American Politics Group (Political Studies Association, UK)
Dean McSweeney

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, Electoral Politics, US Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Political History, US History