List of Figures

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures IX
4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Evaluating the Obama Presidency 1
5. Part I: Winning Elections and Building Political Coalitions
6. Chapter 2 The Transformation of Presidential Fundraising During the Obama Years 13
7. Chapter 3 The Obama Coalition’s Kryptonite: Ralph Stanley, Bruce Springsteen, and the White Working Class 33
8. Part II: Planning, Governance, and Policy Making
9. Chapter 4 Why Health Care Came First, and Other Observations on Barack Obama’s Early Domestic Policy Agenda 55
10. Chapter 5 A Green Presidency? Barack Obama and the Environment 71
11. Chapter 6 Obama’s Domestic Policy Making and the Administrative Presidency 91
12. Chapter 7 Developing a Bench: President Obama’s Judicial Appointment Legacy 109
13. Chapter 8 Women and the Obama Administration: Gender Policy at Home and Abroad 131
14. Chapter 9 The US and Russia during the Obama Administration: An Inevitable Return of Great Power Politics? 151
15. Chapter 10 The Obama Legacy on Nuclear Weapons: Transformative Vision, Pragmatic Results 167
16. Chapter 11 Why Ask? Presidential Leverage and Obama’s Decision to Seek Congressional Authorization for the Use of Force against Syria 187
17. Part III: Communication, Executive Power, and Leadership
18. Chapter 12 Obama, the Pen, and the Phone: Promises to Policies 205
19. Chapter 13 The Genius of America and the Model Immigrant: Barack Obama’s Rhetorical Characterization of DACA Recipients 227
20. Chapter 14 Race, Representation, and Reaction in the Obama Presidency 243
21. Chapter 15 Obama’s Presidency: Redemption and the Misdirected Search for Presidential Greatness 259
22. Contributors 275
23. Acknowledgments 279
24. Index 283