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Author: Thomas Klotz Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668235406 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 41
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Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,0, Munich University of Policy, course: President Obama is going green. Will the U.S. follow?, language: English, abstract: Since President Barack Obama is in office, it seems that environmental policy became an important value in the U.S.-politics. After his election in 2008 — he promised “change” in his campaign — many things truly changed. Since President Georg W. Bush did not care too much for the environmental policy, his successors in office have a lot of work to do. For instance, Obama has to reduce the CO2-emissions and to support renewable energy projects like solar energy electric power stations to keep up with the rest of the world. However, most of the time, President Obama had to deal with threatening and tough topics as unemployment, health insurance and worldwide terrorism—in his first term as well as in his second one. This term paper deals with Obama's second term and analyses the steps taken in the environmental politics since his re-election. As an introduction, we will have a closer look at the problems in the U.S.-politics since 2012
Author: Thomas Klotz Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668235406 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 41
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 1,0, Munich University of Policy, course: President Obama is going green. Will the U.S. follow?, language: English, abstract: Since President Barack Obama is in office, it seems that environmental policy became an important value in the U.S.-politics. After his election in 2008 — he promised “change” in his campaign — many things truly changed. Since President Georg W. Bush did not care too much for the environmental policy, his successors in office have a lot of work to do. For instance, Obama has to reduce the CO2-emissions and to support renewable energy projects like solar energy electric power stations to keep up with the rest of the world. However, most of the time, President Obama had to deal with threatening and tough topics as unemployment, health insurance and worldwide terrorism—in his first term as well as in his second one. This term paper deals with Obama's second term and analyses the steps taken in the environmental politics since his re-election. As an introduction, we will have a closer look at the problems in the U.S.-politics since 2012
Author: David M. Uhlmann Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Much was at stake in the Presidential election of 2012, which was marked by heated debate over the trajectory of the economy, the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, and the fate of the President's health care plan. The candidates disagreed about nearly every issue from foreign policy and the war on terror to a woman's right to choose and same-sex marriage. Lost amid the din and never mentioned in the Presidential debates or most of the campaign speeches was another divisive topic: how our environmental laws and policies should address global climate change and chart a sustainable future for the United States and the world. Yet the environment was on the ballot during the 2012 election, despite its absence from the national debate. The President's efforts to address climate change, promote renewable energy, and provide stronger environmental protection would have been reversed or curtailed if he had lost the election. The environment also arguably influenced the outcome of the 2012 election when Hurricane Sandy struck and gave the President the opportunity to show bi-partisan leadership. It has become almost a cliché to say that no one storm can be attributed to climate change, but Hurricane Sandy underscored both our collective yearning to move beyond partisanship and the moral imperative of decisive steps to address climate change.
Author: The Washington Post Publisher: Diversion Books ISBN: 1635760577 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 286
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In this timely retrospective, leading voices from The Washington Post come together to discuss Barack Obama’s historic presidency. When President Obama was elected, he was a figure of hope for many Americans. Throughout his presidency, he has become far more than a symbol of change; he has enacted countless programs and policies that have made an impact on the country. As his term comes to an end, we look back on what has defined Obama as an American leader. Providing insight into everything from his politics to his family, this collection of articles examines the highlights of the Obama administration. The award-winning journalists at The Washington Post have brought together stories from the last eight years to commemorate the indelible mark our most recent president has made on the United States. Featuring over a hundred historic photos and articles from eight Pulitzer Prize winners, Obama’s Legacy is the perfect way to close out the first family’s years in the White House.
Author: David B. Bancroft Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781456599539 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Obama Green examines environmental policy during President Obama's first two years in office. It tracks the environmental promises of the Obama Campaign to the environmental actions of the Obama Administration, across multiple issues, including, climate change, green jobs, renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean air, clean water, transportation and agricultural issues. The personalities and inter-personal relationships of the major political players involved in setting federal environmental policy are also highlighted. Obama Green looks at who played the heroes, and who played the villains, among Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of House Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner. In addition, Obama Green takes you behind the White House gates, to see the power struggles among: chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel; senior adviser, David Axelrod; energy and climate czar, Carol Browner; green jobs czar, Van Jones; and director of the National Economic Council, Larry Summers. You may be surprised at who utters the four-letter words - or maybe not. In Obama Green, author David B. Bancroft, analyzes President Obama's environmental leadership through four overarching questions. How has President Obama utilized the tools of the presidency - nominations and appointments; relationships with Congress; and direct appeals to the American people - to move forward his environmental agenda? Is he an under-achieving environmental president, a good environmental president or a transcendent environmental president? Has President Obama been implementing an unprecedented environmental agenda that is so wide, and so deep, that it will ultimately steal all your power, your freedom and your wealth? Or is President Obama a charlatan and poseur, carrying out a modern day version of the 1970s movie, Soylent Green; where he has ground up the hopes and dreams of environmentalists and fed them into the political machine, in order to achieve and maintain power - in a latter day, Obama Green?
Author: Byron W. Daynes Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 52
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Despite other presidents who preceded President Obama and who responded somewhat to global climate change, environmentalists look to Barack Obama as a president who might make a real difference regarding global warming. This was particularly so given Obama's campaign statement that this would be a number one priority of his once in office. In this study we compared Barack Obama's first year efforts in responding to global warming with those of George W. Bush, his immediate predecessor, in his first year. To do so we assessed each president in terms of political communication, legislative leadership, administrative actions, and environmental diplomacy. We found a marked difference in political rhetoric between the two with Bush being much more willing to mislead the public regarding climate change, whereas Obama was much more likely to argue that change was needed due to the threat posed by increasing greenhouse gases particularly during the first few months in office.The presidents' relationship with the Congress was also very different that first year with Bush having a very supportive Republican Congress supporting his lack of desire to do much regarding the environment, while Obama, who also had a Democratic-majority in Congress, nevertheless faced a skeptical Congress when it came to his desire to see cap-and-trade legislation that would regulate climate change emissions. Despite Obama's declaration during his campaign that global climate change would be an a number one priority on his agenda, economic hard times, the wars abroad, severe partisanship, an unsupportive public, and an unwillingness to aggressively engage the Congress on this issue have taken their toll on the president shifting climate change from that priority position.
Author: Obama Barack Publisher: Hardpress Publishing ISBN: 9781318914043 Category : Languages : en Pages : 32
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Theda Skocpol Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 1610447115 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 457
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During his winning presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to counter rising economic inequality and revitalize America's middle-class through a series of wide-ranging reforms. His transformational agenda sought to ensure affordable healthcare; reform the nation's schools and make college more affordable; promote clean and renewable energy; reform labor laws and immigration; and redistribute the tax burden from the middle class to wealthier citizens. The Wall Street crisis and economic downturn that erupted as Obama took office also put U.S. financial regulation on the agenda. By the middle of President Obama's first term in office, he had succeeded in advancing major reforms by legislative and administrative means. But a sluggish economic recovery from the deep recession of 2009, accompanied by polarized politics and governmental deadlock in Washington, DC, have raised questions about how far Obama's promised transformations can go. Reaching for a New Deal analyzes both the ambitious domestic policy of Obama's first two years and the consequent political backlash—up to and including the 2010 midterm elections. Reaching for a New Deal opens by assessing how the Obama administration overcame intense partisan struggles to achieve legislative victories in three areas—health care reform, federal higher education loans and grants, and financial regulation. Lawrence Jacobs and Theda Skocpol examine the landmark health care bill, signed into law in spring 2010, which extended affordable health benefits to millions of uninsured Americans after nearly 100 years of failed legislative attempts to do so. Suzanne Mettler explains how Obama succeeded in reorienting higher education policy by shifting loan administration from lenders to the federal government and extending generous tax tuition credits. Reaching for a New Deal also examines the domains in which Obama has used administrative action to further reforms in schools and labor law. The book concludes with examinations of three areas—energy, immigration, and taxes—where Obama's efforts at legislative compromises made little headway. Reaching for a New Deal combines probing analyses of Obama's domestic policy achievements with a big picture look at his change-oriented presidency. The book uses struggles over policy changes as a window into the larger dynamics of American politics and situates the current political era in relation to earlier pivotal junctures in U.S. government and public policy. It offers invaluable lessons about unfolding political transformations in the United States.
Author: Michael Grunwald Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451642342 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 627
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In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in the history of the country. Grunwald’s meticulous reporting shows how the stimulus, though reviled on the right and the left, helped prevent a depression while jump-starting the president’s agenda for lasting change. As ambitious and far-reaching as FDR’s New Deal, the Recovery Act is a down payment on the nation’s economic and environmental future, the purest distillation of change in the Obama era. The stimulus has launched a transition to a clean-energy economy, doubled our renewable power, and financed unprecedented investments in energy efficiency, a smarter grid, electric cars, advanced biofuels, and green manufacturing. It is computerizing America’s pen-and-paper medical system. Its Race to the Top is the boldest education reform in U.S. history. It has put in place the biggest middle-class tax cuts in a generation, the largest research investments ever, and the most extensive infrastructure investments since Eisenhower’s interstate highway system. It includes the largest expansion of antipoverty programs since the Great Society, lifting millions of Americans above the poverty line, reducing homelessness, and modernizing unemployment insurance. Like the first New Deal, Obama’s stimulus has created legacies that last: the world’s largest wind and solar projects, a new battery industry, a fledgling high-speed rail network, and the world’s highest-speed Internet network. Michael Grunwald goes behind the scenes—sitting in on cabinet meetings, as well as recounting the secret strategy sessions where Republicans devised their resistance to Obama—to show how the stimulus was born, how it fueled a resurgence on the right, and how it is changing America. The New New Deal shatters the conventional Washington narrative and it will redefine the way Obama’s first term is perceived.
Author: Hugh Atkinson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317086406 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 205
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The last two decades have witnessed an ever growing partisan divide in US politics over climate change and global warming. Significant elements in the Republican Party became openly hostile to the scientific evidence and, following the election of George W. Bush, legislative action at the federal level effectively ground to a halt. This opened up space at the state and local level to develop climate change policies with cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and New York implementing a number of initiatives that brought real and substantive developments. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 seemed to open new possibilities for federal and global leadership once more and whilst the Obama administration has been criticised for a somewhat contradictory approach to the issue at times, there were nonetheless a number of substantive policy developments. Through a substantive and detailed analysis of the politics of climate change, this book places the evolution of US climate policy within broader debates on the nature of politics in the US and argues that there exists a latent potential, often obscured by the complexities of its political system, for America to act as a world leader on the issue. This work will appeal particularly to students and scholars in American Politics, but will also prove useful to those in the fields of general Politics, climate change, sustainability, and environmental studies.
Author: Thomas Klotz
Author: Thomas Klotz
Author: David M. Uhlmann
Author: The Washington Post
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Author: Byron W. Daynes
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