{"id":58821,"date":"2019-09-04T20:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58821"},"modified":"2019-09-04T20:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T20:48:36","slug":"the-obama-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58821","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Obama Legacy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University Press of Kansas<\/a>
\nMay 2019
\n320 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-7006-2790-5<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bert A. Rockman<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Emeritus of Political Science
\nPurdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew Rudalevige<\/strong><\/a>, Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government
\nBowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHope\u201d and \u201cchange\u201d were the keywords of President Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> 2008 campaign, and in his farewell address on January 10, 2017, he cited the evidence that he\u2019d delivered\u2014from reversing the Great Recession<\/a>, rebooting the auto industry, and unleashing the longest stretch of job creation in the nation\u2019s history to winning marriage equality and securing the right to health insurance for another 20 million citizens. At the same time, and with a view to the country\u2019s divisive polarization, he made a plea for \u201cthe decency of our people\u201d and \u201cthe sense of common purpose that we so badly need right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

In hindsight, it is increasingly possible to understand whether and how Obama\u2019s legacy matched his rhetoric as well as to evaluate from various angles what his presidency accomplished and what this has meant for US politics, public policy, and civic life going forward. In The Obama Legacy<\/em> some of the leading observers and scholars of US politics take up this challenge. In twelve essays these writers examine Obama\u2019s choices, operating style, and opportunities taken and missed as well as the institutional and political constraints on the president\u2019s policy agenda. What were Obama\u2019s personal characteristics as a leader? What were the policy aspirations, output, and strategy of his presidency? What was his role as a political and public leader to the various constituencies needed to generate presidential power? And how did his presidency interact with other political forces?<\/p>\n

Addressing these questions and others, the authors analyze Obama\u2019s preferences, tactics, successes, and shortcomings with an eye toward balancing the personal and institutional factors that underlie each\u2014all the while considering how resilient or fragile Obama\u2019s legacy will be in the face of the Trump administration\u2019s eager efforts to dismantle it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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