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"Public policy in the United States is marked by a contradiction between the American ideal of equality and the reality of an underclass of marginalized and disadvantaged people who are widely viewed as undeserving and incapable. Deserving and Entitled provides a close inspection of many differ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schneider, Anne L. (Anne Larason), Ingram, Helen M., 1937-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York, ©2005.
Colección:SUNY series in public policy.
Temas:
Social groups > Political aspects > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Politics and government
Social groups > Political aspects
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Public policy and the social construction of deservedness / Helen M. Ingram, Anne L. Schneider
  • PART I. HISTORICAL ROOTS OF CONSTRUCTIONS OF DERSERVEDNESS AND ENTITLEMENT
  • Constructing and entitling America's original veterans / Laura S. Jensen
  • Constructing the democratic citizen: idiocy and insanity in American suffrage law / Kay Schriner
  • From 'problem minority' to 'model minority': the changing social construction of Japanese Americans / Stephanie J. DiAlto
  • PART II. CONGRESSIONAL DISCOURSE: FORGING LINES OF DIVISION BETWEEN DESERVING AND UNDESERVING
  • Contested images of race and place: the politics of housing discrimination / Mara S. Sidney
  • 'It is not a question of being anti-immigration': categories of deservedness in immigration policy making / Lina Newton
  • PART III. NONPROFITS, NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DESERVEDNESS
  • The construction of client identities in a post-welfare social service program: the double bind of microenterprise development / Nancy Jurik, Julie Cowgill
  • Deservedness in poor neighborhoods: a morality struggle / Michelle Camou
  • PART IV. CONSTRUCTIONS BY MORAL ENTREPRENEURS AND POLICY ANALYSTS
  • From perception to public policy: translating social constructions into policy designs / Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Kenneth J. Meier
  • Jezebels, matriarchs, and welfare queens: the Moynihan Report of 1965 and the social construction of African-American women in welfare policy / Dionne Bensonsmith
  • Putting a black face on welfare: the good and the bad / Sanford F. Schram
  • PART V. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS, IDENTITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND PARTICIPATION
  • Making clients and citizens: welfare policy as a source of status, belief, and action / Joe Soss.

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