The Welfare State Nobody Knows Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy
The Welfare State Nobody Knows challenges a number of myths and half-truths about U.S. social policy. The American welfare state is supposed to be a pale imitation of "true" welfare states in Europe and Canada. Christopher Howard argues that the American welfare state is in fact larger, mo...
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2021, ©2007
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Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: Basic tour
- She's so unusual
- Tracks of my tiers
- Twice in a lifetime
- II: New horizons
- Ogres, onions, and layers (or, how Republicans built the American welfare state)
- Programs for the poor are not always poor programs
- Shaq is still pretty tall: public support for the American welfare state
- The world according to AARP
- III: Checkpoints and roadblocks
- The American states: laboratories of Democracy or cryogenic chambers?
- Race still matters
- Change versus progress