Author : Margaret Weir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 1988-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691028415
Revised papers from the second and third of three conference held in Chicago throughout 1984-1985, and sponsored by the Project on the Federal Social Role. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Scott L. Greer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472131176
Federalism and Social Policy focuses on the crucial question: Is a strong and egalitarian welfare state compatible with federalism? In this carefully curated collection, Scott L. Greer, Heather Elliott, and the contributors explore the relationship between decentralization and the welfare state to determine whether or not decentralization has negative consequences for welfare. The contributors examine a variety of federal countries, including Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom, asking four key questions related to decentralization: (1) Are there regional welfare states (such as Scotland, Minnesota, etc.)? (2) How much variation is there in the structures of federal welfare states? (3) Is federalism bad for welfare? (4) Does austerity recentralize or decentralize welfare states? By focusing on money and policy instead of law and constitutional politics, the volume shows that federalism shapes regional governments and policies even when decentralization exists.
Author : Ron Haskins
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815725701
The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and enacted several initiatives to fund social programs based on rigorous evidence of success. Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis tell the story of six—spanning preschool and K-12 education, teen pregnancy, employment and training, health, and community-based programs. Readers will appreciate the fast-moving descriptions of the politics and policy debates that shaped these federal programs and the analysis of whether they will truly reshape federal social policy and greatly improve its impacts on the nation's social problems. Based on interviews with 134 individuals (including advocates, officials at the Office of Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council, Congressional staff, and officials in the federal agencies administering the initiatives) as well as Congressional and administration documents and news accounts, the authors examine each of the six initiatives in separate chapters. The story of each initiative includes a review of the social problem the initiative addresses; the genesis and enactment of the legislation that authorized the initiative; and the development of the procedures used by the administration to set the evidence standard and evaluation requirements—including the requirements for grant applications and awarding of grants.
Author : David B. Muhlhausen
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1440828032
Addressing an issue of burning interest to every taxpayer, a Heritage Foundation scholar brings objective analysis to bear as he responds to the important—and provocative—question posed by his book's title. Of course, the answer to that question will also help determine whether the American public should fear budget cuts to federal social programs. Readers, says author David B. Muhlhausen, can rest easy. As his book decisively demonstrates, scientifically rigorous national studies almost unanimously find that the federal government fails to solve social problems. To prove his point, Muhlhausen reports on large-scale evaluations of social programs for children, families, and workers, some advocated by Democrats, some by Republicans. But it isn't just the results that matter. It's the lesson to readers on how Americans can—and should—accurately assess government programs that cost hundreds of billions of dollars each year. At the book's core is an insistence that we move beyond anecdotal reasoning and often-partisan opinion to measure the effectiveness of social programs using objective analysis and scientific methods. At the very least, the results of such analysis will, like this book, provide a sound basis for much-needed public debate.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309264146
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Author : Nathan Glazer
Publisher :
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674534445
Many social policies of the 1960s and 1970s, designed to overcome poverty and provide a decent standard of living for all Americans, ran into trouble in the 1980s with politicians, with social scientists, and with the American people. Here Nathan Glazer looks back at what went wrong, arguing that our social policies, although targeted effectively on some problems, ignored others that are equally important. Glazer's knowledge and judgment, distilled in this book, will be a source of advice and wisdom for citizens and policymakers alike.
Author : James Midgley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761915614
Comprises 33 papers grouped under five themes: The Nature of social policy; The History of social policy; Social policy and the social services; The Political economy of social policy; and International and future perspectives on social policy.
Author : Donald T. Critchlow
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271041544
Author : Sara Niedzwiecki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108472044
Social policies can transform the lives of the poor, yet subnational politics and state capacity often inhibit their success.
Author : Irwin Garfinkel
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Some for more government, others for less; but all call for different government methods for achieving socially agreed-upon goals to help America's children.
