9780801841286 : americas-welfare-state-berkowitz

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240 Pages

$34.00 USD

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	March 1, 1991
ISBN-13	9780801841286
Language	English
Pages	240
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.75 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$34.00 USD, £28.00 GBP
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America's Welfare State

Name: America's Welfare State
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Author: Edward D. Berkowitz
ISBN: 9780801841286

From Roosevelt to Reagan

By Edward D. Berkowitz

Johns Hopkins University Press

Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.

Descriving the uneasy evolution of America's welfare programs, Berkowitz explains how the Social Security program became popular, why it almost went bankrupt, and why its long-term prospects for solvency remain uncertain. He traces changing public perceptions of social welfare goals, from providing secure entitlements for the eldery in the 1930s and 1940s to making payments to illegitimate children and their mothers in the 1950s and 1960s. He also explores the question of national health insurnace, noting that the United States outspends Japan on health care per capita by a margin of tow to one, and yea millions of Americans remain without health insurance.

About the Author

Edward D. Berkowitz, professor of history at George Washington University, has participated in the making of social welfare policy as a policy analyst at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and as a senior staffmember of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. He is the author of Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped.

Reviews

"Readers of America's Welfare State will derive an excellent understanding of the complexity surrounding social welfare in the late 20th-century US. Upper-division undergraduates and above."

"Useful for scholars and students both for its insights into the policy-making process and for its account of how American social policy arrived at the sorry state we find it in today."

- Jeffrey L. Davidson - Contemporary Sociology

"A remarkably successful book... powerfully written and clearly of interest to scholars and policy experts alike."

- Ellis W. Hawley - Labor History

"Berkowitz has gone behind the written statute and the official press release to find out who believed what and who did what to effect changes in the process and substantive aspects of welfare statism. This book is a worthy addition to the literature."

- Robert J. Lampman - Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Endorsements

"Astute historian that he is, Edward Berkowitz has written an informative and provocative account of U.S. social policymaking since the 1930s. He convincingly highlights gaps between expectations and outcomes, tracing the roots of America's recurrent 'welfare crises.' This book is bound to interest scholars and policy experts alike."

- Theda Skocpol, Harvard University

Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Series	The American Moment
BISAC Subject Headings	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century (339 Titles) MEDICAL / Health Policy (155 Titles) POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare (9 Titles)
BIC Subject Headings	History of the Americas (1142 Titles) Political science & theory (344 Titles) Public health & safety law (117 Titles)
US school grade range	From 17

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	March 1, 1991
ISBN-13	9780801841286
Language	English
Pages	240
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.75 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$34.00 USD, £28.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference