Championing child care / Sally S. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Sally Solomon.

Series:

Power, conflict, and democracy.

Power, conflict, and democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child care--Government policy--United States.

Child care.

Child care--Political aspects--United States.

Child care services--Government policy--United States.

Child care services.

Child care services--Law and legislation--United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 397 p.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch officials, archival research, and secondary sources, this book looks at the politics behind child care legislation, rather than analyzing child care as a work and family issue. Identifying key junctures at which major child care bills were introduced and debated (1971, 1990, and 1996), Sally Cohen examines the politics surrounding each of these events and identifies the political structures and negotiations that evolved in the intervening years. In addition, Cohen looks at the impact the election of President Clinton has had on child care policymaking, and how child care legislation became part of other issues, including welfare reform, crime prevention, school readiness, and tax policy revisions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Dodd, Christopher

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1971

3. From Political Stalemate to Welfare Entitlement, 1972-1988

4. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1987-1990

5. Regulations, Implementation, and High Expectations, 1991-1993

6. Child Care and Welfare Reform, 1994-1996

7. High Hopes, 1997-2000

8. A View from the States, 1996-2000

9. Looking Back and to the Future

Notes

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-374) and index.

ISBN:

9780231112376

0231112378

9780231504522

0231504527

OCLC:

52123687