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All in the family : the private roots of American public policy / Patricia Strach.
LIBRA HQ536 .S7693 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strach, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family policy--United States.
- Family policy.
- United States.
- Families--United States.
- Families.
- United States--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- All in the Family is the first empirical study of family in the American policy process. It shows that, far from being private or only a part of family policy, family is an important part of American policymaking even in seemingly non-family policies like immigration, tax, and agriculture.
- Contents:
- Family and American public policy
- Family in the policy process
- Changing social practices, changing policy
- Family criteria in immigration policy
- Taxing the family
- Rhetoric and reality : the family farm
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-233) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780804756082
- 0804756082
- 9780804756099
- 0804756090
- OCLC:
- 79001293
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