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Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis
Theodore Marmor
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Description for Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis
Paperback. Editor(s): Marmor, Theodore R.; Mashaw, Jerry L. Series: Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
What are the possibilities and prospects for Social Security over the decades ahead? The essays in this interdisciplinary study explore what social insurance has meant historically, socially, economically, politically, and legally in the years since the founding of the American social security system in 1935. Questions examined include: Does Social Security have a coherent and defendable ideology? If so, is that ideology adequate to the demands of a contemporary political environment that seems to emphasize the re-privatization of many roles adopted by the modern welfare state? What explains the peculiarly feverish quality of recent Social Security politics--which has been characterized ... Read more
What are the possibilities and prospects for Social Security over the decades ahead? The essays in this interdisciplinary study explore what social insurance has meant historically, socially, economically, politically, and legally in the years since the founding of the American social security system in 1935. Questions examined include: Does Social Security have a coherent and defendable ideology? If so, is that ideology adequate to the demands of a contemporary political environment that seems to emphasize the re-privatization of many roles adopted by the modern welfare state? What explains the peculiarly feverish quality of recent Social Security politics--which has been characterized ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691606538
SKU
V9780691606538
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