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Author : United States. Committee on Economic Security
Publisher : National Conference
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015009931836
Author : United States. Committee on Economic Security
Publisher : National Conference
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social security
ISBN : 0933597029
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social security
ISBN : UOM:39015087539949
Author : Edwin Amenta
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691227481
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 this surprising fact--and to explain why the country's leading role was short-lived. The orthodox view is that American social policy began in the 1930s as a two-track system of miserly "welfare" for the unemployed and generous "social security" for the elderly. However, Amenta shows that the New Deal was in fact a bold program of relief, committed to providing jobs and income support for the unemployed. Social security was, by comparison, a policy afterthought. By the late 1930s, he shows, the U.S. pledged more of its gross national product to relief programs than did any other major industrial country. Amenta develops and uses an institutional politics theory to explain how social policy expansion was driven by northern Democrats, state-based reformers, and political outsiders. And he shows that retrenchment in the 1940s was led by politicians from areas where beneficiaries of relief were barred from voting. He also considers why some programs were nationalized, why some states had far-reaching "little New Deals," and why Britain--otherwise so similar to the United States--adopted more generous social programs. Bold Relief will transform our understanding of the roots of American social policy and of the institutional and political dynamics that will shape its future.
Author : Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Family social work
ISBN : 0896085511
This important book looks at the changes in AFDC, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance, and welfare "reform." This new edition reveals how welfare policy scapegoats women more than ever to justify widespread retrenchment and to divert the public's attention from the real causes of the nation's mounting economic woes.
Author : David A. Moss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674016092
One of the most important functions of government—risk management—is one of the least well understood. Moving beyond familiar public functions—spending, taxation, and regulation—Moss spotlights government's pivotal role as a risk manager, revealing the nature and extent of this function, which touches almost every aspect of economic life.
Author : Daniel Béland
Publisher : Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061177211
Compact, timely, well-researched, and balanced, this institutional history of Social Security's seventy years shows how the past still influences ongoing reform debates, helping the reader both to understand and evaluate the current partisan arguments on both sides.
Author : Elizabeth Bussiere
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 027103887X
Although focused on the Warren Court, the book explores Western political thought from the seventeenth through late twentieth centuries, draws on American social history from the Age of Jackson through the civil rights era of the 1960s, and utilizes current analytic methods, particularly the "new institutionalism."
Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501728822
The New Deal was not the same deal for men and women—a finding strikingly demonstrated in Dividing Citizens. Rich with implications for current debates over citizenship and welfare policy, this book provides a detailed historical account of how governing institutions and public policies shape social status and civic life. In her examination of the impact of New Deal social and labor policies on the organization and character of American citizenship, Suzanne Mettler offers an incisive analysis of the formation and implementation of the pillars of the modern welfare state: the Social Security Act, including Old Age and Survivors' Insurance, Old Age Assistance, Unemployment Insurance, and Aid to Dependent Children (later known simply as "welfare"), as well as the Fair Labor Standards Act, which guaranteed the minimum wage. Mettler draws on the methods of historical-institutionalists to develop a "structured governance" approach to her analysis of the New Deal. She shows how the new welfare state institutionalized gender politically, most clearly by incorporating men, particularly white men, into nationally administered policies and consigning women to more variable state-run programs. Differential incorporation of citizens, in turn, prompted different types of participation in politics. These gender-specific consequences were the outcome of a complex interplay of institutional dynamics, political imperatives, and the unintended consequences of policy implementation actions. By tracing the subtle and complicated political dynamics that emerged with New Deal policies, Mettler sounds a cautionary note as we once again negotiate the bounds of American federalism and public policy.
Author : Edwin Amenta
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780691138268
When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it. The book tells the overlooked story of the Townsend Plan--a political organization that sought to alleviate poverty and end the Great Depression through a government-provided retirement stipend of $200 a month for every American over the age of sixty. Both the Townsend Plan, which organized two million older Americans into Townsend clubs, and the wider pension movement failed to win the generous and universal senior citizens' pensions their advocates demanded. But the movement provided the political impetus behind old-age policy in its formative years and pushed America down the track of creating an old-age welfare state. Drawing on a wealth of primary evidence, historical detail, and arresting images, Edwin Amenta traces the ups and downs of the Townsend Plan and its elderly leader Dr. Francis E. Townsend in the struggle to remake old age. In the process, Amenta advances a new theory of when social movements are influential. The book challenges the conventional wisdom that U.S. old-age policy was a result mainly of the Depression or farsighted bureaucrats. It also debunks the current view that America immediately embraced Social Security when it was adopted in 1935. And it sheds new light on how social movements that fail to achieve their primary goals can still influence social policy and the way people relate to politics.
Author : Aaron W. Warner,Mathew Forstater,Sumner Rosen,Robert Heilbroner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317474081
The 15 papers collected in this book encompass important macroeconomic theories and policies espoused by 1996 Nobel laureate economist William S. Vickrey and his associates. Vickrey wrote a number of papers in the last few years of his life elucidating his "commitment to full employment" as a prerequisite for a decent standard of living for all. Drawing on the foundation of Vickrey's work, the contributors expand and elaborate on issues relative to full employment theory and policy, and on related macro-policy issues.
Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521013283
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Author : Theda Skocpol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691214023
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.
Author : Henry Aaron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0815719590
Why did President Clinton's efforts to reform the financing of American health care fail? For years to come, politicians and scholars of public policy will revisit the debate over Clinton's health care plan. What did planners do right? And what did they do wrong? How can the mistakes of that experience be avoided in the future? What steps can now be taken to achieve some measure of reform in smaller pieces? In The Problem That Won't Go Away, economists, political scientists, sociologists, public opinion experts, and government staff offer answers to these and other crucial questions. They recount the history of the Clinton health care plan, present several alternative strategies the administration might have pursued, and conclude that none was likely to achieve the administration's goals of universal coverage and cost containment. Many support the view that the administration, Congress, and the nation lacked the political consensus and the information to credibly describe the effects of any single bill to reform the U.S. health care system. In that case, was the only option available to the administration to reach for goals far more modest than those it sought? Health care financing as a national political issue will not go away. Pressure to cut public spending to balance the budget means that medicare and medicaid will stay in the legislative spotlight; the retirement of the baby-boom generation in the beginning of the next century promises large increases in the cost of medicare; and a flood of new and costly medical technologies will continue to put financial pressure on everyone responsible for paying for health insurance. But, as this book illustrates, the nature of the debate in the years after the demise of the Clinton plan will be altogether different from that of the past several decades.
Author : Sheila D. Collins,Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199990702
When Government Helped systematically evaluates some parallels between The Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown, not only in terms of their economic causes and consequences, but also in terms of their political and cultural contexts and the environmental crises that afflict both periods. The positive and negative lessons for contemporary policy-making are evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of authors across a range of policy arenas. This book is a unique blend of disciplines that presents a new set of guideposts--some beneficial, some cautionary--for the future.
