Welfare Hot Buttons : Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform /
Bashevkin, Sylvia
Welfare Hot Buttons : Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform / Sylvia Bashevkin. - 1 online resource (196 p.) - Heritage .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Welfare Hot Buttons provides one of the first comparative assessments of contemporary social policy change in three Western countries: Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Sylvia Bashevkin probes the fate of single mothers on social assistance during the period when three "third way" political executives were in office ? Bill Clinton (US), Jean Chrétien (Canada), and Tony Blair (Great Britain) ? and argues that despite seemingly progressive campaign rhetoric, the social assistance policy realities under each of these three leaders were in crucial respects more punitive and restrictive than those of their neo-conservative predecessors in the 1980s.Bashevkin addresses even more contentious issues in her study, including the question of whether Anglo-American welfare states are being eclipsed by what she views as newly emergent duty states. In her comparative approach and in her substantive analysis, Bashevkin makes an original and critical contribution to the existing body of literature on social policy.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802085177 9781442683266
10.3138/9781442683266 doi
Public welfare--Canada.
Public welfare--Great Britain.
Public welfare--United States.
Single mothers--Government policy--United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
HV91
361.6/1/097
Welfare Hot Buttons : Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform / Sylvia Bashevkin. - 1 online resource (196 p.) - Heritage .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Welfare Hot Buttons provides one of the first comparative assessments of contemporary social policy change in three Western countries: Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Sylvia Bashevkin probes the fate of single mothers on social assistance during the period when three "third way" political executives were in office ? Bill Clinton (US), Jean Chrétien (Canada), and Tony Blair (Great Britain) ? and argues that despite seemingly progressive campaign rhetoric, the social assistance policy realities under each of these three leaders were in crucial respects more punitive and restrictive than those of their neo-conservative predecessors in the 1980s.Bashevkin addresses even more contentious issues in her study, including the question of whether Anglo-American welfare states are being eclipsed by what she views as newly emergent duty states. In her comparative approach and in her substantive analysis, Bashevkin makes an original and critical contribution to the existing body of literature on social policy.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802085177 9781442683266
10.3138/9781442683266 doi
Public welfare--Canada.
Public welfare--Great Britain.
Public welfare--United States.
Single mothers--Government policy--United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
HV91
361.6/1/097