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Social Policy in the United States Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective

Paperback • 1995 • English

Social Policy in the United States Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective

By Theda Skocpol

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Readers will be surprised at many of the findings and arguments of this volume. Skocpol dispels the myth that Americans are inherently hostile to governmental social spending. When universal social programs jointly benefit the middle class and the poor, she shows, Americans since the nineteenth century have been willing to pay taxes for them and happy to partake of the security they provide. Insights from the past also illuminate why ideological attacks against "bureaucratic meddling" by the fed...Show more

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ISBN

9780691037851

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

1995

Language

English

Original title

Social Policy in the United States Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective

Format

Paperback

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