Bold Relief - Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy

Name: Bold Relief - Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy
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ISBN: 9780691050683

ISBN-10: 0691050686

ISBN-13: 9780691050683

Edition: 2000

Authors: Edwin Amenta

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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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables and Figures


Preface


Introduction: Paradoxes of American Social Policy



An Institutional Politics Theory of Social Policy



An Indifferent Commitment to Modern Social Policy, 1880-1934



America's First Welfare Reform, 1935-1936



Consolidating the Work and Relief Policy, 1937-1939



Some Little New Deals Are Littler than Others



Redefining the New Deal, 1940-1950



A Welfare State for Britain


Conclusion


Afterword


Notes


Initials of Organizations and Programs


Sources of Illustrations


Index