03109    a2200361   4500999001900000003000800019005001700027007000300044008004100047020001800088020001500106040001700121041000900138050002500147245011100172260011100283300003700394440001600431500006600447500009800513504004100611505088100652520075601533600002802289651005902317700004402376700004302420710007502463710006602538942001202604946000902616952012202625  c114800d114800BJBSDDR20230411090706.0ta201020s2012    enk||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781908857026  a1908857021  bspacBJBSDDR  aeng 14a002 E 907bB867 201200aBroken government? : bAmerican politics in the Obama era /cedited by Iwan Morgan and Philip John Davies.  aLondon : bInstitute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, School of Advanced Study, c2012  avii, 181 p. : bill. ;  c23 cm  0aISA series   a"British Library, Eccles Centre for American Studies"--Cover.  a"This volume is based on a conference held at the British Library in December 2010."--P. [1].  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aIntroduction : broken government? / Iwan Morgan -- 'Hail gridlock?' : Hamiltonian energy, Madisonian institutions and American dissensus / Andrew Rudalevige -- What's wrong with Congress and what should be done about it? / James A. Thurber -- Singularity, separation and sharing : Richard Neustadt's lessons for politicians and political scientists / Nigel Bowles -- Tenure reform and presidential power : the single six-year term proposal / Niall A. Palmer -- The politics of the US budget : a metaphor for broken government / Iwan Morgan -- Losing voice, losing trust : the partisan dynamics of public evaluations of government in an era of polarisation / Brian F. Schaffner and John A. Clark -- Two years of achievement and strife : the Democrats and the Obama presidency, 2009-10 / Alex Waddan -- The rise of the Tea Party movement and American governance / Edward Ashbee.  aBarack Obama's election as president in 2008 generated widespread hope that the United States was entering a new era whereby government, in a reversal of Ronald Reagan's famous dictum, would be the solution to the nation's manifold problems amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The Obama election slogan of "Yes We Can" seemed to voice a hope that new leadership would put right what had gone wrong with America. Anticipating a new era of government activism, some commentators read the death rites on "The Age of Reagan," the post-1980 anti-statist trend of American politics. Within a short time, however, "Yes We Can" gave way to "No We Can't," as America's government became enmeshed in gridlock and political polarization.14aObama, Barack,  d1961- 492575aEstados UnidosxPolítica y gobiernoy2009-20171 913560aMorgan, Iwan W., d1949-eeditor1 913561aDavies, Philip, d1948-eeditor2 916374aUniversity of London. bInstitute for the Study of the Americas2 916375aBritish Library. bEccles Centre for American Studies   2lcccBK  idpf   001040708RRaBJBbBJBcRRd2020-10-20l0o002 E 907 B867 2012p00000146616r2020-10-20 00:00:00t1w2020-10-20yBK