TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bashevkin,Sylvia
TI  - Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform 
T2  - Heritage
SN  - 9780802085177
AV  - HV91 
U1  - 361.6/1/097 
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Canada
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
KW  - Single mothers
KW  - Government policy
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
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ER  -