Welfare discipline : discourse, governance, and globalization / Sanford F. Schram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schram, Sanford.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare.

Social policy.

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare--Europe.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Discourse analysis.

United States--Social policy--1993-.

United States.

Europe--Social policy.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the past decade, political scientist Sanford Schram has led the academic effort to understand how Americans and their political officials talk about poverty and welfare and what impact that discourse has on policy and on the global society. In Welfare Discipline, Schram argues that it is time to take stock of the new forms of welfare and to develop even better methods to understand them. He argues for a more contextualized approach to examining welfare policy, from the use of the idea of globalization to justify cutbacks, to the increasing employment of U.S. policy disc

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Truth of Globalization Discourse: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; 2 Reversed Polarities: The Incomplete Americanizationof European Welfare Policy; 3 Truth Is a Woman: Care as the Real Absence in the Post-Industrial Welfare State; 4 Welfare as Racemaking: Contextualizing Racial Disparitiesin Welfare Reform; 5 Recommodified Discourse: The Limits of the Asset-BuildingApproach to Fighting Poverty; 6 Deconstructing Dependency: Heading Toward a Counter-Discourse; 7 Compassionate Liberalism: Harm Reduction as a Postmodern Ethicfor the Welfare State; Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611093662

9781281093660

1281093661

9781592137787

1592137784

OCLC:

476075179