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A political history of the American welfare system : when ideas have consequences / Brendon O'Connor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connor, Brendon, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- United States.
- United States--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- History of the American welfare system
- American welfare system
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2004]
- Contents:
- Part I The Liberal Welfare System
- 1. Liberalism and Welfare: The Ideological and Political Roots of the American Welfare System 19
- 2. The Liberal Consensus and the Great Society 49
- 3. The Seeds of Doom for Liberalism 71
- Part II The Conservative Attack on Welfare Liberalism
- 4. The Neoconservatives 93
- 5. Reagan's Conservatives: The Supply-Siders, George Gilder, and Charles Murray 111
- 6. The New Right 137
- 7. A Populist Backlash? 157
- Part III The Emergence of a Conservative Welfare System
- 8. Bill Clinton's Third Way Welfare Politics: Innovation, Compromise, and Capitulation 185
- 9. Newt Gingrich, the Contract with America, and Justifying the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 205
- 10. Conservative Welfare Policy in Practice 223.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742526674
- 0742526682
- OCLC:
- 52814140
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