This text examines why the US welfare state does less than other Western welfare states to help people in need. Combining an account of recent research on how political institutions, class politics, and racial divisions shape public policy, with a close analysis of four periods of welfare state expansion and contraction, the author shows how deeply-rooted structural, institutional, and organizational factors limit the possibilities for change, and suggests what social reformers might do about it.
- ISBN10 0195113365
- ISBN13 9780195113365
- Publish Date 11 September 1997 (first published 1 January 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 July 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 216
- Language English