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Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
Lo
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Description for Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
Paperback. This volume examines the impact of the American Conservative-implemented policy agenda of the last 25 years - featuring balanced budgets, lower taxes, fewer social programmes and family values - on contemporary public policy, and on the future of social justice and democracy. Editor(s): Lo, Clarence Yh (University of Missouri USA); Schwartz, Michael. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JKS; JPFM; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 548.
A comprehensive collection of original essays by leading experts on social and econmic policy including Frances Fox Piven, Harvey Molotch, Jill Quadagno, James Petras, and Judith Stacey. This volume challenges the conservative notion that the fundamental problem plaguing America is dependancy on government and further cuts only lead to a cycle of recision.
A comprehensive collection of original essays by leading experts on social and econmic policy including Frances Fox Piven, Harvey Molotch, Jill Quadagno, James Petras, and Judith Stacey. This volume challenges the conservative notion that the fundamental problem plaguing America is dependancy on government and further cuts only lead to a cycle of recision.
- Newly published articles by the leading experts in social and economic policy
- Explores conservative social policy of the late twentieth century
- Contains articles on welfare reform, health care, military spending and economic policy
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781577181200
SKU
V9781577181200
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99-50
About Lo
Clarence Y. H. Lo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is the author of Small Property versus Big Government: Social Origins of the Property Tax Revolt (University of California Press, 1990, revised edition 1995) and writes articles about theories of the state and conservative social movements. Michael Schwartz ... Read more
Reviews for Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
"This is an impressive volume. It is filled with original insights on recent federal policies on domestic issues. I can think of no work that sheds more light on why the conservative political movement was able to seep through the Clinton administration and influence its economic and social policies." William Julius Wilson, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, John F. ... Read more