Developments in American Politics 6

This new text, written by a team of leading authorities, assesses the state of American politics in the Obama administration. It looks both at the institutional framework of government and at the policy dilemmas facing the United States today and it analyzes the major controversial issues that shape American political debates in the 21st century.

List of contents

Introduction: The Legacy of the Bush Years
A New American Agenda?.
The Electoral System and the Lessons of 2008
Political Parties and the New Partisanship
Interest Groups
The Media
The Presidency
Congress
The Supreme Court
American Federalism in the 21st Century
Environmental Policy
Economic Policy
American Social Policy: the Possibilities for Reform
American Foreign Policy in the 2010s
The American Constitution at the End of the Bush Presidency
Nation of Nations: US Immigration Policy and Politics

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Bailey Peele
• Assisted by: Christopher J. Bailey (Editor), Bruce Cain (Editor), Gillian Peele (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2010
• EAN: 9780230576834
• ISBN: 978-0-230-57683-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science