Remaking America : democracy and public policy in an age of inequality / Joe Soss, Jacob S. Hacker, and Suzanne Mettler, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Soss, Joe, 1967-

Hacker, Jacob S.

Mettler, Suzanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States.

Distributive justice--United States.

Distributive justice.

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

United States--Social policy--1993-.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2007]

Contents:

The new politics of inequality : a policy-centered perspective / Jacob S. Hacker, Suzanne Mettler, and Joe Soss

Constricting the welfare state : tax policy and the political movement against government / Kimberly J. Morgan

Entrepreneurial litigation : advocacy coalitions and strategies in the fragmented American welfare state / R. Shep Melnick

The implementation and evolution of Medicare : the distributional effects of "positive" policy feedbacks / Lawrence R. Jacobs

A public transformed? welfare reform as policy feedback / Joe Soss and Sanford F. Schram

Universalism, targeting, and participation / Andrea Louise Campbell

Institutions and agents in the politics of welfare cutbacks / Frances Fox Piven

Policies of racial classification and the politics of racial inequality / Jennifer Hochschild and Vesla Weaver

Welfare policy and the transformation of care / Deborah Stone

The promise of progressive federalism / Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers

The political consequences of mass imprisonment / Joshua Guetzkow and Bruce Western

Poverty, policy, and the social construction of target groups / Helen Ingram

Policy, politics, and the rise of inequality / Paul Pierson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780871543516

0871543516

OCLC:

123539301