October 26, 2009Obama and the Policy Approach
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FROM ISSUE NUMBER 1 ~ FALL 2009 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS TEXT SIZE A A A Nine months into his tenure, the patterns of President Barack Obama's style of governing are becoming clear. Obama had no executive experience when he took the presidential oath last winter — but he did come in with a particular idea of what politics and government are for, and how they ought to work. It is a view grounded in Progressive politics, and shared by a number of Democratic chief executives in recent decades. But Obama has articulated it, and his administration has embodied it, more fully than most. Perhaps the most distinctive... Related Topics: economy RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
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