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The reluctant welfare state : American social welfare policies--past, present, and future / Bruce S. Jansson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Belmont, CA ; Southbank, Victoria, Australia : Brooks/Cole/Thomson Learning, c2005.Edition: 5th edDescription: xii, 509 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0534574696
  • 9780534574697
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HN 57 J35r 2005
Contents:
1. Social reform in a society with conflicting tendencies -- 2. A framework for understanding the evolution of the reluctant welfare state -- 3. Fashioning a new society in the wilderness -- 4. Social welfare policy in the early republic : 1789-1860 -- 5. Lost opportunities : the frontier, the Civil War, and industrialization -- 6. Social reform in the progressive era -- 7. The early stages of the New Deal -- 8. Institutionalizing the New Deal -- 9. The era of federal social services : the new frontier and the great society -- 10. The paradoxical era : 1968-1980 -- 11. The conservative counterrevolution in the era of Reagan and Bush -- 12. Reluctance illustrated : policy uncertainty during the Clinton administration -- 13. Bush's quest for realignment -- 14. Why has the American welfare state been reluctant - and what can we do about it?
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Social reform in a society with conflicting tendencies -- 2. A framework for understanding the evolution of the reluctant welfare state -- 3. Fashioning a new society in the wilderness -- 4. Social welfare policy in the early republic : 1789-1860 -- 5. Lost opportunities : the frontier, the Civil War, and industrialization -- 6. Social reform in the progressive era -- 7. The early stages of the New Deal -- 8. Institutionalizing the New Deal -- 9. The era of federal social services : the new frontier and the great society -- 10. The paradoxical era : 1968-1980 -- 11. The conservative counterrevolution in the era of Reagan and Bush -- 12. Reluctance illustrated : policy uncertainty during the Clinton administration -- 13. Bush's quest for realignment -- 14. Why has the American welfare state been reluctant - and what can we do about it?

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