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050 0 0 _aHN57
072 7 _aPOL023000
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aAmenta, Edwin
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBold Relief :
_bInstitutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy /
_cEdwin Amenta.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©1998
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.) :
_b19 halftones, 7 charts, 19 tables
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 0 _aPrinceton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ;
_v62
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tILLUSTRATIONS --
_tTABLES AND FIGURES --
_tPREFACE --
_tINTRODUCTION Paradoxes of American Social Policy --
_tCHAPTER ONE An Institutional Politics Theory of Social Policy --
_tCHAPTER TWO An Indifferent Commitment to Modern Social Policy, 1880-1934 --
_tCHAPTER THREE America's First Welfare Reform, 1935-1936 --
_tCHAPTER FOUR Consolidating the Work and Relief Policy, 1937-1939 --
_tCHAPTER FIVE Some Little New Deals Are Littler than Others --
_tCHAPTER SIX Redefining the New Deal, 1940-1950 --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN A Welfare State for Britain --
_tCONCLUSION --
_tAFTERWORD --
_tNOTES --
_tINITIALS OF ORGANIZATIONS AND PROGRAMS --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aAccording 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 unemployed. Social security was, by comparison, a policy afterthought. By the late 1930s, he shows, the U.S. pledged more of its gross national product to relief programs than did any other major industrial country. Amenta develops and uses an institutional politics theory to explain how social policy expansion was driven by northern Democrats, state-based reformers, and political outsiders. And he shows that retrenchment in the 1940s was led by politicians from areas where beneficiaries of relief were barred from voting. He also considers why some programs were nationalized, why some states had far-reaching "little New Deals," and why Britain--otherwise so similar to the United States--adopted more generous social programs. Bold Relief will transform our understanding of the roots of American social policy and of the institutional and political dynamics that will shape its future.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)
650 0 _aPublic welfare
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.
_2bisacsh
653 _aAfrican Americans.
653 _aAgricultural Adjustment Administration.
653 _aAmerican Labor party.
653 _aAmerican Legion.
653 _aAmerican Liberty League (ALL).
653 _aAmerican Medical Association (AMA).
653 _aBeveridge, William.
653 _aBoard of Trade, Britain.
653 _aBurnham, Walter Dean.
653 _aCalifornia.
653 _aCivil War pensions.
653 _aCold War.
653 _aCommon Sense.
653 _aDepartment of Labor.
653 _aDowney, Sheridan.
653 _aEmergency Powers Act (1944).
653 _aEnd Poverty in California (EPIC).
653 _aGreat Depression.
653 _aHouse of Representatives.
653 _aJowitt, Sir William.
653 _aKeynesianism.
653 _aMassachusetts.
653 _aMinistry of Labour, Britain.
653 _aNational Civic Federation.
653 _aOhio.
653 _aRepublican party.
653 _aRockefeller Foundation.
653 _aantidiscrimination policies.
653 _abusiness organizations.
653 _acampaign finance.
653 _acoalitions.
653 _acorporatism.
653 _adeficit spending.
653 _ademocracy.
653 _adisability insurance.
653 _aeconomic and modernization theories.
653 _aelections.
653 _afederalism.
653 _aform of programs.
653 _ahealth policy.
653 _ainstitutional and statist theories.
653 _aleft-center parties.
653 _aliberalism.
653 _alogrolling.
653 _aneed-based programs.
653 _aold-age pensions.
653 _aoutdoor relief.
653 _apatronage.
653 _apolicy experts.
653 _aprogressivism.
653 _apublic works.
653 _arecession.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227481?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691227481
856 4 2 _3Cover
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999 _c195570
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