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Social policy in the United States future possibilities in historical perspective Theda Skocpol.
Series Princeton studies in American politicsDetalles de publicación: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press c1995.Descripción: 326 p. illISBN:- 0691037868 (cloth : alk. paper)
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- HN57 .S525 1995
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Skocpol says that understanding the history of social policy making in the US is a prerequisite for influencing the process. This collection of essays, arranged to create a proposal for advocacy, begins with a reprise of her 1992 book on early social welfare provision in the US, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (CH, Jul'93), extends her analysis to include the New Deal, and ends with a critique of President Clinton's health care proposals. Skocpol argues that although new social possibilities emerge at critical moments in history, the impact of the political coalitions that agitate for innovation depends on the fit between the structure of government and the character of their proposals. Thus, even though the US began to implement social insurance and comprehensive benefit programs in the late 19th century, limited federal authority and a concomitantly weak national bureaucracy prevented the development of a full "welfare state." The lesson of this history of social policy, she contends, is that the only benefits proposals that have lasted and flourished in the US are universal ones--like social security--that "have spread costs and visibly delivered benefits across classes and races." An important, provocative, and often persuasive argument. All levels. N. B. Rosenthal; SUNY College at Old WestburyNotas de autor provistas por Syndetics
Theda Skocpol is professor of government and sociology at Harvard University and the author of Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government.(Bowker Author Biography)