Social Security : : Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis / / ed. by Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ball, Robert M.,; Cover, Robert M.,; Graetz, Michael J.,; Klein, Rudolf,; Marmor, Theodore R.,; Mashaw, Jerry L.,; O’higgins, Michael,; Starr, Paul,; Tobin, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Marmor, Theodore R.,; Mashaw, Jerry L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role ; 5041
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.)

What are the possibilities and prospects for Social Security over the decades ahead? The essays in this interdisciplinary study explore what social insurance has meant historically, socially, economically, politically, and legally in the years since the founding of the American social security system in 1935. Questions examined include: Does Social Security have a coherent and defendable ideology? If so, is that ideology adequate to the demands of a contemporary political environment that seems to emphasize the re-privatization of many roles adopted by the modern welfare state? What explains the peculiarly feverish quality of recent Social Security politics--which has been characterized by periodic high anxiety, claims of doom and crisis, and rigid resistance to any alteration, followed by eventual marginal adjustment and continuing uncertainty about the future? Although the authors do not offer answers for all these questions, they convey confidence about the basic structure of American social security and optimism about its future possibilities. Contributors to the work are Robert M. Ball, Robert M. Cover, Michael J. Graetz, Rudolf Klein, Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, Michael O'Higgins, Paul Starr, and James Tobin.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. -- 1. The Original Understanding on Social Security: Implications for Later Developments ROBERT M. BALL -- 2. The Future of Social Security: One Economist's Assessment -- 3. Social Security and Constitutional Entitlement -- PART II. -- 4. Retirement Security Policy: Toward a More Unified View -- 5. Social Security and the American Public Household -- PART III. -- 6. Disability Insurance in an Age of Retrenchment: The Politics of Implementing Rights -- 7. Coping with a Creeping Crisis: Medicare at Twenty -- PART IV. -- 8. Defusing the Crisis of the Welfare State: A New Interpretation -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index