Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change

Edward Ashbee is Associate Professor and Program Director of International Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and the author of The Right and the Recession (2015).John Dumbrell is Professor of Government at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Clinton’s Foreign Policy (2009) and Rethinking the Vietnam War (2012). He is also editor of Issues in American Politics (2014).

• Introduction – The Politics of Change .- Obama's Electoral Record: The Emerging Democratic Majority? .- Obama and Congress: Change in an Age of Deadlock? .- The US Supreme Court in the Obama Years .- Continuity and Change: Immigration Worksite Enforcement during the Bush and Obama Administrations .- Macroeconomic Policy and Processes of Neoliberalization during the Obama Years .- Racially Polarised Partisanship and the Obama Presidency .- Offers and Throffers: Education Policy under Obama .- Healthy Hunger-free Kids? The US School Lunch Revolution .- Looking Back on Obama’s Environmental Policy .- A New ‘War on Poverty’? A Story of Policy Success, Frustration and Restraint .- Barack Obama and the Return of ‘Declinism’: Rebalancing American Foreign Policy in an Era of Multipolarity .- Obama and Iran: Explaining Policy Change .- “Here, We See the Future:” The Obama Administration’s Pivot to Asia.