Social Policy in the United States : : Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective / / Theda Skocpol.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Skocpol, Theda,
• MitwirkendeR: Amenta, Edwin,; Ikenberry, G. John,; Ritter, Gretchen,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 172
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 3 figures.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION. American Social Policies: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective --; CHAPTER ONE. State Formation and Social Policy in the United States --; CHAPTER TWO. America's First Social Security System: The Expansion of Benefits for Civil War Veterans --; CHAPTER THREE. Gender and the Origins of Modern Social Policies in Britain and the United States --; CHAPTER FOUR The Road to Social Security --; CHAPTER FIVE. Redefining the New Deal: World War II and the Development of Social Provision in the United States --; CHAPTER SIX. The Limits of the New Deal System and the Roots of Contemporary Welfare Dilemmas --; CHAPTER SEVEN. "Brother, Can You Spare a Job?" Work and Welfare in the United States --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Targeting within Universalism: Politically Viable Policies to Combat Poverty in the United States --; CHAPTER NINE. Is the Time Finally Ripe? Health Insurance Reforms in the 1990s --; CHAPTER TEN. From Social Security to Health Security? --; CONCLUSION. Remaking U.S. Social Policies for the 21st Century --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691214023; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691214023?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Theda Skocpol.

Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental institutions and political alliances, can illuminate the limits and possibilities of American social policymaking both past and present. Skocpol dispels the myth that Americans are inherently hostile to social spending and suggests why President Clinton's health care agenda was so quickly attacked despite the support of most Americans for his goals.