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Looking Back on President Barack Obama’s Legacy

Hope and Change

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Editors:
  1. Wilbur C. Rich

    1. Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

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  • Collects together a highly readable and accessible look at the Obama presidency from scholars who are experts in public policy

  • Provides a sober assessment of Obama's legacy, delving deeply into Obama’s actions, stated intentions and the policy results with objectivity and candor

  • Offers insights into the changing nature of the American presidency and shows how the presidency continues to evolve

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Barack Obama and the Transformational Impulse

    • Wilbur C. Rich
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Obama Legacy in American Electoral Participation

    • Lyn Ragsdale
    Pages 25-46

  4. Managing a Regime in Crisis: The Twilight of Neoliberalism and the Politics of Economic Recovery During the First Year of the Obama Administration

    • Kristoffer Smemo
    Pages 47-68

  5. The Obama Health Care Legacy: The Origins, Implementation, and Effort to Repeal the Affordable Care Act of 2010

    • Jill Quadagno, Daniel Lanford
    Pages 69-92

  6. Appraising the Foreign Policy Legacy of the Obama Presidency

    • Meena Bose
    Pages 93-113

  7. The World We Have Lost: US Labor in the Obama Years

    • Ruth Milkman
    Pages 115-131

  8. Swimming the Multiple Currents: The Political and Racial Time of Barack Obama’s Presidency

    • Kimberley S. Johnson
    Pages 133-147

  9. The Legacy of President Obama in the U.S. Supreme Court

    • Isaac Unah, Ryan Williams
    Pages 149-189

  10. The Obama Administration’s Global Warming Legacy: Going with the Flow and the Politics of Failure

    • George A. Gonzalez
    Pages 191-210

  11. Unfulfilled Hopes: President Obama’s Legacy

    • Stanley Renshon
    Pages 211-248

  12. Conclusion: Who Was President Barack Obama?

    • Wilbur C. Rich
    Pages 249-257

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 259-263
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About this book

When President Barack Hussein Obama left office January 20, 2017, he left a fascinating legacy. The Obama Presidency will remain an intriguing part of our nation’s political history, and we can now say that there were unexpected achievements and failures. His tenure was both historical and complex, and will inevitably be compared with his predecessors and successors. The chapters in this volume are a serious assessment of President Obama’s tenure written by a diverse team that includes political scientists, sociologists, historians, and economists. They provide critical insights into the man and his policies and, more importantly, are written in a manner that makes them available to laypersons, journalists, students, and scholars.

Reviews

“Professor Rich and his contributors offer multiple theoretical frames and some surprising and controversial conclusions on the Obama legacy in multiple areas of domestic and foreign policy, making a distinctive and provocative contribution to the literature on the Obama presidency.” (Robert C. Smith, Emeritus Professor, Political Science, San Francisco State University, USA)

“Focusing on Obama’s “transformational impulse,” the authors provide a rich, nuanced, and complex set of judgments about the Obama presidency and its legacies. An important addition to the literature on the Obama administration.” (Mary E. Stuckey, Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State University, USA)

“Wilbur Rich’s Hope and Change will be considered a foundational study into the presidency of Barack Obama.” (Marion Orr, Frederick Lippitt Professor, Public Policy, and Professor, Political Science and Urban Studies, Brown University, USA)

 

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Wilbur C. Rich

About the editor

Wilbur C. Rich is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College, USA. He is the author of The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats (1982), Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (1989), Black Mayors and School Politics (1996), David Dinkins and New York City Politics: Race, Images and the Media (2007), and The Post-Racial Society is Here: Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State (2015). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Looking Back on President Barack Obama’s Legacy

  • Book Subtitle: Hope and Change

  • Editors: Wilbur C. Rich

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01545-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01544-2Published: 28 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01545-9Published: 12 December 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 263

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: US Politics, Political Leadership, Political History

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