The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy
Опубликовано на портале: 12-11-2007
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Princeton University Press, 2007, 330 с.
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Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich
industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might
have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential
administrations tried to replace the nation's existing welfare system with a revolutionary
program to guarantee Americans basic economic security. Surprisingly from today's
vantage point, guaranteed income plans received broad bipartisan support in the 1960s.
One proposal, President Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, nearly passed into law in
the 1970s, and President Carter advanced a similar bill a few years later. The failure
of these proposals marked the federal government's last direct effort to alleviate
poverty among the least advantaged and, ironically, sowed the seeds of conservative
welfare reform strategies under President Reagan and beyond.
This episode has largely vanished from America's collective memory. Here, Brian Steensland
tells the whole story for the first time--from why such an unlikely policy idea first
developed to the factors that sealed its fate. His account, based on extensive original
research in presidential archives, draws on mainstream social science perspectives
that emphasize the influence of powerful stakeholder groups and policymaking institutions.
But Steensland also shows that some of the most potent obstacles to guaranteed income
plans were cultural. Most centrally, by challenging Americans' longstanding distinction
between the "deserving" and "undeserving" poor, the plans threatened the nation's
cultural, political, and economic status quo.
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Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction. Understanding the Failed Welfare Revolution
1. The Rise of Guaranteed Annual Income
2. Guaranteed Annual Income Goes Public
3. The Origins and Transformation of the Nixon Plan
4. Nixon's Family Assistance Plan Stalls
5. Defeat and Its Policy Legacy
6. Carter and the Program for Better Jobs and Income
7. Lost Opportunities, Consequences, and Lessons
8. Culture and Welfare Policy Development
Notes
References
Index
Ключевые слова
social policy sociology of economic development varieties of capitalism welfare welfare reform welfare state
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