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Landslide: The "Obama Surge" And The Future Of California Politics, Corey Cook, David Latterman
Landslide: The "Obama Surge" And The Future Of California Politics, Corey Cook, David Latterman
Corey Cook
The 2008 presidential election in California resulted in a landslide of historic proportions. Barack Obama's victory, fueled as it was by 2.1 million first-time voters, seemingly portends a realignment in California. At the same time, outside the presidential election, the results in 2008 were well within the norms of California politics. Utilizing an original dataset, we unravel this conundrum by examining whether these "surge voters" were substantially different from habitual voters, whether they have stayed engaged in electoral politics, and what might that tell us about the future partisan and political alignment in California?
Lessons From The Health-Care Wars, Peter Dreier
What Is A Reasonable Compromise On Health Care Reform?, Peter Dreier
What Is A Reasonable Compromise On Health Care Reform?, Peter Dreier
Peter Dreier
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President Obama, Public Participation, And An Agenda For Research And Experimentation, Thomas Bryer
President Obama, Public Participation, And An Agenda For Research And Experimentation, Thomas Bryer
Thomas A Bryer
The Obama Administration has offered citizens and onlookers from other nations a host of innovative efforts to make the United States federal government more open, participatory, and collaborative. In this issue of the International Journal of Public Participation, a set of invited authors consider the varying levels of success of this work demonstrated thus far and raise important research and practical questions for the Administration and others who might learn from the Administration’s experiences. In this introduction, some of these questions are reviewed and notable practices are summarized. Ultimately, it is concluded that, though the Administration is still young, there …
Public Engagement In The Obama Administration: Building A Democracy Bubble?, Thomas Bryer
Public Engagement In The Obama Administration: Building A Democracy Bubble?, Thomas Bryer
Thomas A Bryer
Following the Bush Administration, the Obama team enhanced access for citizens to participatory venues. Extending and enhancing access gives citizens opportunity to develop their citizenship skills, potentially influence policy, and potentially become better connected to community life. The Administration can be applauded for participatory innovations, but the Administration needs to proceed strategically to ensure the innovations do not produce more harm than good and to ensure that the real change they are producing is not whisked away in the next Administration as rapidly as an information cascade infects the citizenry. This article develops the idea of a democracy bubble as …
Making Change: A Six-Month Review, Gregory Koger
Making Change: A Six-Month Review, Gregory Koger
Gregory Koger
This article surveys President Obama's policy agenda-setting for the first six months of his term. I consider whether the conditions ripe for an ambitious policy agenda and summarize the logic of Presidential agenda-setting. I use this framework to explain the Democrats' agenda for 2009, summarize their progress thus far, and discuss the implications for the Democratic Party in 2010 and after. Although the Democrats have made significant progress on their policy goals, they have not reaped the full political rewards from this success. Instead, the majority party will likely be judged on the pace of economic recovery and whether they …