The New Welfare Consensus : Ideological, Political, and Social Origins / Darren Barany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barany, Darren, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Welfare recipients--Employment--United States--History--20th century.

Welfare recipients.

Welfare state--United States--History--20th century.

Welfare state.

Public welfare--United States--History--20th century.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2018.

Summary:

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.Families on welfare in the United States are the target of much public indignation from not only the general public but also political figures and the very workers whose job it is to help the poor. The question is, What explains this animus and, more specifically, the failure of the United States to prioritize a sufficient social wage for poor families outside of labor markets? The New Welfare Consensus offers a comprehensive look at welfare in the United States and how it has evolved in the last few decades. Darren Barany examines the origins of American antiwelfarism and traces how, over time, fundamentally conservative ideas became the dominant way of thinking about the welfare state, work, family, and personal responsibility, resulting in a paternalistic and stingy system of welfare programs.

Contents:

Introduction

The old libertarian right and American anti-welfarism, from the interwar period to 1960

Traditionalist conservatism and new right anti-welfarism, the world war II-era to 1960

Fertile fields for anti-welfarist ideology in the 1960s

The rightward drift of American liberalism and the neoconservative attack on the social safety net in the 1950s and 1960s

Elite mobilization against the safety net

Stabilizing the myth of the welfare queen : the economistic paternalism of Reagan-era anti-welfarism

The new welfare consensus : US welfare policy discourse in the 1980s and 1990s

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438470566

1438470568

OCLC:

1045629703