The Welfare Debate of 1978
Author | : Gordon Lee Weil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gordon Lee Weil |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Project Share |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Public welfare |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gary M. Fink |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
After the Nixon and Ford administrations, liberal Democrats hoped Jimmy Carter's election in 1976 would restore the New Deal agenda in the White House. Instead, during four tumultuous years in office, Carter endorsed many of the fiscal and economic policies later espoused by his Republican successor, Ronald Reagan. But Carter also backed most New Deal social programs and, however reluctantly, pursued a traditional containment foreign policy. In this book more than a dozen eminent scholars provide a balanced overview of key elements of Carter's presidency, examining the significance of his administration within the context of evolving American policy choices after World War II. They seek not only to understand the troubled Carter presidency but also to identify the changes that precipitated and accompanied the demise of the New Deal order. By the time Carter took office many Americans had become disenchanted with big government and welfare spending, and his presidency is viewed in these pages as a transitional administration. As this volume demonstrates, Carter's dilemma emerged from his effort to steer a course between traditional expectations of federal government and new political and economic realities. While most of the contributors agree that his administration may be justly criticized for failing to find that course, they generally conclude that Carter was more successful than his critics acknowledge. These thirteen original essays cover such topics as the economy, trade and industrial policies, welfare reform, energy, environment, civil rights, feminism, and foreign policy. They offer thoughtful assessments of Carter's performance, focusing on policy both as cause and effect of the post-industrial transformation of American society that shadowed his administration. A final essay shows how Carter's public spirited post-presidential career has made him one of America's greatest ex-presidents. Grounded on research conducted at the Carter Library, The Carter Presidency is an incisive reassessment of an isolated Democratic administration from the vantage point of twenty years. It is a milestone in the historical appraisal of that administration, inviting us to take a new look at Jimmy Carter and see what his presidency represented for a dramatically changing America.
Author | : Christopher Howard |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1999-03-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 069100529X |
Analyzes the "hidden" welfare state created by such programmes as tax deductions for home mortgage interest and employer-provided retirement pensions, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit. The text examines the distinctive characteristics of these policies, aiming to help the reader to understand the historical links between the hidden welfare state and US tax policy, accentuating the importance of Congress and political parties. It also focuses on the reasons why individuals, businesses and public officials support tax expenditures.
Author | : P.M. Sommers |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9400973896 |
This is the second in a series of books growing out of the annual Mid dlebury College Conference on Economic Issues. The second confer ence, held in April 1980, focused on goals and realities of welfare reform. The objectives of the conference were threefold: (1) evaluation of the antipoverty effort so far; (2) discussion of welfare reform alternatives; and (3) prediction of how new initiatives would change work behavior and productivity. During the time this country has been engaged in a "war on poverty," two massive efforts to reform welfare, Richard M. Nixon's Family As sistance Plan (FAP) and Jimmy Carter's Program for Better Jobs and Income (PBJI), were proposed. Both defined national benefit levels and featured a negative income tax. Both measures were defeated in Congress. More modest efforts at reform have, however, changed the economic landscape. Because of the rapid growth in cash and in-kind transfer programs, income poverty is no longer the serious problem that it was in 1964. In fact, looking at the proliferation of programs and the substantial surge in participation rates, some politicians have even advocated a period of government retrenchment. In 1971, the governor of California vii viii INTRODUCTION proposed (and implemented) a major welfare reform in an attempt to stem the rapid growth of welfare caseloads that began in his state in 1967-68. He argued that savings from administrative improvements could be used to raise benefits for the "truly needy.
Author | : |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1442998075 |
Author | : Kenneth Kipnis |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780847673858 |
Twenty distinguished philosophers and social theorists have contributed original papers to this stimulating investigation into the nature of the economically just society. Collectively, and in a remarkably coherent fashion, these papers set out the problems of contemporary social theory within the context of the distributive justice vs. property rights debate initiated by the works of John Rawls and Robert Nozick.
Author | : James T. Patterson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2000-09-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674266412 |
This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s," those years of extraordinary performance of the economy. He explores a range of issues arising from the economic phenomenon--increasing inequality and demands for use of an improved poverty definition. He focuses the story on the impact of the highly controversial welfare reform of 1996, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Democratic President Clinton, despite the laments of anguished liberals.
Author | : Gosta Esping-Andersen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013-05-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0745666752 |
Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of the character and role of welfare states in the functioning of contemporary advanced western societies. Esping-Andersen distinguishes several major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different western countries. Current economic processes, the author argues, such as those moving towards a post-industrial order, are not shaped by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences. Fully informed by comparative materials, this book will have great appeal to everyone working on issues of economic development and post-industrialism. Its audience will include students and academics in sociology, economics and politics.
Author | : Laurence E. Lynn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |