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

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 3 figures.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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