Obama on the Home Front
Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10370440 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Graham G Dodds (0000-0002-9535-2767, Concordia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 133 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-160 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1002/polq.12747 |
| OpenAlex | W2795464809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Given the manifold difficulties of the early Donald Trump presidency and its unrealized public policy ambitions, the issue of evaluating a president’s policy accomplishments has been very much in the news. In Bush on the Home Front (2010), John D. Graham detailed the domestic policy successes and failures of George W. Bush’s presidency, and now in Obama on the Home Front, he does the same for Barack Obama’s presidency. Graham declines to pass judgment on whether Obama’s domestic policy efforts were good or bad for the country and instead focuses only on the extent to which Obama succeeded or failed in his policy goals. The book also presents a nine-point theory of presidential effectiveness in times of political polarization, which involves outreach, the inclusion of elements to appeal to the base and also to moderates, the use of interest groups, and going public both nationally and locally, among other things. Beyond this theory, the book uses case studies and counterfactual considerations to evaluate Obama’s policy performance
Development economics · Economics · Front (military · Geography · Home front · Meteorology · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |