Roadblocked
Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency
Seiten
2024
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-3707-2 (ISBN)
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-3707-2 (ISBN)
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their transition to the White House in the most unusual of circumstances. Roadblocked is a revelatory look at the seventy days between the election and the inauguration with a focus on the ways the Biden-Harris transition team sought help and advice to overcome these obstacles.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their transition to the White House in the most unusual of circumstances: a global pandemic, a sitting president violently refusing to accept the results of the election, and a historic racial reckoning all posed profound questions about how they would staff large parts of the government and articulate policy remedies to pressing problems in just eleven weeks.Heath Brown’s Roadblocked is a revelatory look at the seventy days between the election and the inauguration with a focus on the ways the Biden-Harris transition team sought help and advice to overcome these obstacles. Informed by over 125 exclusive interviews with members of the transition team and wide cast of other stakeholders, Brown takes readers deep inside the 2020 presidential transition. More than that, Roadblocked is also a gripping history of US presidential transitions over the past half-century that compares the transition teams of the last four administrations.
Biden-Harris transition leaders had a massive team with a complex organizational structure and a stated aim to promote coordination, encourage teamwork, and avoid siloing staff. In the end, however, these aims were foiled by the conditions of the pandemic and steep hierarchies, which both reduced collaboration and information sharing and left many feeling isolated. In the end, despite substantial changes in the Democratic coalition, newly influential groups armed with novel tactics, and great shifts in their political agenda, the Biden-Harris transition did not lead to transformation. Roadblocked explains why.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their transition to the White House in the most unusual of circumstances: a global pandemic, a sitting president violently refusing to accept the results of the election, and a historic racial reckoning all posed profound questions about how they would staff large parts of the government and articulate policy remedies to pressing problems in just eleven weeks.Heath Brown’s Roadblocked is a revelatory look at the seventy days between the election and the inauguration with a focus on the ways the Biden-Harris transition team sought help and advice to overcome these obstacles. Informed by over 125 exclusive interviews with members of the transition team and wide cast of other stakeholders, Brown takes readers deep inside the 2020 presidential transition. More than that, Roadblocked is also a gripping history of US presidential transitions over the past half-century that compares the transition teams of the last four administrations.
Biden-Harris transition leaders had a massive team with a complex organizational structure and a stated aim to promote coordination, encourage teamwork, and avoid siloing staff. In the end, however, these aims were foiled by the conditions of the pandemic and steep hierarchies, which both reduced collaboration and information sharing and left many feeling isolated. In the end, despite substantial changes in the Democratic coalition, newly influential groups armed with novel tactics, and great shifts in their political agenda, the Biden-Harris transition did not lead to transformation. Roadblocked explains why.
Heath Brown is associate professor of public policy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of Homeschooling the Right, Immigrants and Electoral Politics, and Lobbying the New President.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Model of Access and Influence during Presidential Transitions
2. Securing a Seat at the Table
3. Inside the Biden-Harris Transition
4. The Biden-Harris Transition from the Outside
5. Healing the Nation
6. What to Advise the New President
Conclusion
Appendix: Data Collection
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.11.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 figures, 7 tables |
Verlagsort | Kansas |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 136 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7006-3707-9 / 0700637079 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7006-3707-2 / 9780700637072 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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Buch | Softcover (2023)
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