Bold Relief : : Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy / / Edwin Amenta.
According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional--exceptionally stingy and backwards. But Edwin Amenta reminds us here that sixty years ago the United States led the world in spending on social provision. He combines history and political theory to account for thi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 19 halftones, 7 charts, 19 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES AND FIGURES
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION Paradoxes of American Social Policy
- CHAPTER ONE An Institutional Politics Theory of Social Policy
- CHAPTER TWO An Indifferent Commitment to Modern Social Policy, 1880-1934
- CHAPTER THREE America's First Welfare Reform, 1935-1936
- CHAPTER FOUR Consolidating the Work and Relief Policy, 1937-1939
- CHAPTER FIVE Some Little New Deals Are Littler than Others
- CHAPTER SIX Redefining the New Deal, 1940-1950
- CHAPTER SEVEN A Welfare State for Britain
- CONCLUSION
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- INITIALS OF ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS
- INDEX