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Social policy in the United States : future possibilities in historical perspective /
Health care, welfare, Social Security, employment programs--all are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy in the United States. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Theda Skocpol shows how historical understanding, centered on governmental institutions and politica...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1995]
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| Colección: | Princeton studies in American politics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- American social policies: future possibilities in historical perspective
- State formation and social policy in the United States
- America's first social security system: the expansion of benefits for Civil War veterans
- Gender and the origins of modern social policies in Britain and the United States (with Gretchen Ritter)
- The road to social security (with G. John Ikenberry)
- Redefining the New Deal: World War II and the development of social provision in the United States (with Edwin Amenta)
- The limits of the New Deal system and the roots of contemporary welfare dilemmas
- "Brother, can you spare a job?" Work and welfare in the United States
- Targeting within universalism: politically viable policies to combat poverty in the United States
- Is the time finally ripe? Health insurance reforms in the 1990s
- From social security to health security?
- Remaking U.S. social policies for the 21st century.