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Places the welfare debates of the 1980s in the context of past patterns of US policy, such as the Social Security Act of 1935, the failure of efforts in the 1940s to extend national social benefits and economic planning, and the backlashes against "big government" that followed reforms of the 1960s and early 1970s.

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The Politics of Social Policy in the United

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    A Paperback / softback by Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff, Theda Skocpol

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/05/1988
      ISBN13: 9780691028415, 978-0691028415
      ISBN10: 0691028419
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Places the welfare debates of the 1980s in the context of past patterns of US policy, such as the Social Security Act of 1935, the failure of efforts in the 1940s to extend national social benefits and economic planning, and the backlashes against "big government" that followed reforms of the 1960s and early 1970s.

      Trade Review
      "Social democratic critiques of the American welfare state abound ... {and this book] is one of the best works in this genre. It is solidly researched and written with calm authority."--Public Interest

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