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Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521013284
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Author : Robert Morris
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
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Author : Christopher Howard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691121802
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Author : Daniel Béland
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 019983850X
This handbook provides a survey of the American welfare state. It offers an historical overview of U.S. social policy from the colonial era to the present, a discussion of available theoretical perspectives on it, an analysis of social programmes, and on overview of the U.S. welfare state's consequences for poverty, inequality, and citizenship.
Author : Howard Jacob Karger
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 9780134303192
American social welfare policy -- Social policy and the American welfare state -- A brief history of the American social welfare state -- Social welfare policy research : a framework for policy analysis -- Discrimination in american society -- Poverty in America -- The voluntary and for-profit social sectors -- The voluntary sector today -- Privatization and human service corporations -- The government sector -- The making of governmental policy -- Tax policy and income distribution -- Social insurance programs -- Public assistance programs -- The American health ccare system -- Mental health and substance abuse policy -- Criminal justice -- Child welfare policy -- Housing policies -- The politics of food policy and rural life -- The American welfare state in perspective -- The American welfare state in international perspective -- Glossary -- Index
Author : Fay Lomax Cook
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Public opinion
ISBN : 0231076193
This edition reveals the results of a survey of attitudes of both the public and members of the U.S. House of Representatives about Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare, Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Food Stamps, and Unemployment Compensation.
Author : David Stoesz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780847677276
'. . . the book makes clear that there is a consensus on the need for and desire for change'-PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
Author : Christopher Howard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691235228
The Welfare State Nobody Knows challenges a number of myths and half-truths about U.S. social policy. The American welfare state is supposed to be a pale imitation of "true" welfare states in Europe and Canada. Christopher Howard argues that the American welfare state is in fact larger, more popular, and more dynamic than commonly believed. Nevertheless, poverty and inequality remain high, and this book helps explain why so much effort accomplishes so little. One important reason is that the United States is adept at creating social programs that benefit the middle and upper-middle classes, but less successful in creating programs for those who need the most help. This book is unusually broad in scope, analyzing the politics of social programs that are well known (such as Social Security and welfare) and less well known but still important (such as workers' compensation, home mortgage interest deduction, and the Americans with Disabilities Act). Although it emphasizes developments in recent decades, the book ranges across the entire twentieth century to identify patterns of policymaking. Methodologically, it weaves together quantitative and qualitative approaches in order to answer fundamental questions about the politics of U.S. social policy. Ambitious and timely, The Welfare State Nobody Knows asks us to rethink the influence of political parties, interest groups, public opinion, federalism, policy design, and race on the American welfare state.
Author : Kimberly J. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199875634
Why are so many American social programs delegated to private actors? And what are the consequences for efficiency, accountability, and the well-being of beneficiaries? The Delegated Welfare State examines the development of the American welfare state through the lens of delegation: how policymakers have avoided direct governmental provision of benefits and services, turning to non-state actors for the governance of social programs. Utilizing case studies of Medicare and the 2009-10 health care reform, Morgan and Campbell argue that the prevalence of delegated governance reflects the powerful role of interest groups in American politics, the dominance of Congress in social policymaking, and deep contradictions in American public opinion. Americans want both social programs and small government, leaving policy makers in a bind. Contracting out public programs to non-state actors masks the role of the state and enlists private allies who push for passage. Although delegated governance has been politically expedient, enabling the growth of government programs in an anti-government political climate, it raises questions about fraud, abuse, administrative effectiveness, and accountability. In probing both the causes and consequences of delegated governance, The Delegated Welfare State offers a novel interpretation of both American social welfare politics and the nature of the American state.
Author : Michael E. Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501722352
The American welfare state is often blamed for exacerbating social problems confronting African Americans while failing to improve their economic lot. Michael K. Brown contends that our welfare system has in fact denied them the social provision it gives white citizens while stigmatizing them as recipients of government benefits for low income citizens. In his provocative history of America's "safety net" from its origins in the New Deal through much of its dismantling in the 1990s, Brown explains how the forces of fiscal conservatism and racism combined to shape a welfare state in which blacks are disproportionately excluded from mainstream programs.Brown describes how business and middle class opposition to taxes and spending limited the scope of the Social Security Act and work relief programs of the 1930s and the Great Society in the 1960s. These decisions produced a welfare state that relies heavily on privately provided health and pension programs and cash benefits for the poor. In a society characterized by pervasive racial discrimination, this outcome, Michael Brown makes clear, has led to a racially stratified welfare system: by denying African Americans work, whites limited their access to private benefits as well as to social security and other forms of social insurance, making welfare their "main occupation." In his conclusion, Brown addresses the implications of his argument for both conservative and liberal critiques of the Great Society and for policies designed to remedy inner-city poverty.