Introduction : a counterfactual presidency / Bert A. Rockman, Andrew Rudalevige
"Change we can believe in" meets reality / Joel D. Aberbach
Strategic assessments : evaluating opportunities and strategies in the Obama presidency / George C. Edwards III
Political forces on the Obama presidency : from election '08 to governing / James E. Campbell
Public opinion and the presidency : the Obama and anti-Obama coalitions / Gary C. Jacobson
Obama and the public presidency : what got you here won't get you there / Diane J. Heith
The privileges of access : interest groups and the White House / Lawrence R. Jacobs
Rivals, or a team? : staff and issue management in the Obama administration / Andrew Rudalevige
Obama and the 111th Congress : doing big things / Barbara Sinclair
Obama and the law : judicial restraint at the crossroads / David A. Yalof
Ambition, necessity, and polarization in the Obama domestic agenda / Christopher H. Foreman, Jr
Continuity and change in Obama's foreign policy / Robert Singh
Economic crisis and political change : a new new deal? / M. Stephen Weatherford
Concluding thoughts : president, person, and system / Bert A. Rockman, Eric N. Waltenburg, Colin Campbell.