The Divided Welfare State: The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United StatesCambridge University Press, 2002 M09 9 - 447 pages The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's distinctive system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is unusual--less expensive and extensive, later to develop and slower to grow, than comparable programs abroad. Yet, U.S. social policy does not stand out solely for its limits. American social spending is actually as high as spending is in many European nations. What is truly distinctive is that so many social welfare duties are handled not by the state, but by the private sector with government support. With sweeping historical reach and a wealth of statistical and cross-national evidence, The Divided Welfare State demonstrates that private social benefits have not merely been shaped by public policy, but have deeply influenced the politics of public social programs--to produce a social policy framework whose political and social effects are strikingly different than often assumed. At a time of fierce new debates about social policy, this book is essential to understanding the roots of America's distinctive model and its future possibilities. Jacob S. Hacker is the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Profesor of Political Science at Yale University. Previously, he was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and Fellow at the New America Foundation as well as a Guest Scholar and Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security (Princeton, 1997), which was co-winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration. His articles and opinion pieces have appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and Washington Post. A regular media commentator, he has discussed his work widely on C-Span, national public radio and in papers nationwide. |
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Page xiii
... argument of the book is that neither the structure nor the politics of America's exceptional policy framework can be ... argue , is " subterranean " politics - far less visible to the broad public , far more favorable to the privileged ...
... argument of the book is that neither the structure nor the politics of America's exceptional policy framework can be ... argue , is " subterranean " politics - far less visible to the broad public , far more favorable to the privileged ...
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... arguments about long - term political processes , arguments that can only be assessed through multiple levels of analysis and over long spans of time . And the history I trace is also , in this precise sense , my explanation for the ...
... arguments about long - term political processes , arguments that can only be assessed through multiple levels of analysis and over long spans of time . And the history I trace is also , in this precise sense , my explanation for the ...
Page xvi
... argument I wished to make , kept me opti- mistic through every setback and every wrong turn , even when her own professional obligations were pressing . It would be easy to say that without her wisdom , patience , and unselfishness ...
... argument I wished to make , kept me opti- mistic through every setback and every wrong turn , even when her own professional obligations were pressing . It would be easy to say that without her wisdom , patience , and unselfishness ...
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... argue that students of the welfare state cannot ignore private social benefits and the less visible sub- sidies and regulations that shape them . Not only does the United States rely more heavily on these alternative forms of ...
... argue that students of the welfare state cannot ignore private social benefits and the less visible sub- sidies and regulations that shape them . Not only does the United States rely more heavily on these alternative forms of ...
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... argument of this book is that their political and distribu- tional characteristics differ substantially . But the ... argue that publicly regulated and subsidized private ben- efits are the welfare state . The welfare state is a ...
... argument of this book is that their political and distribu- tional characteristics differ substantially . But the ... argue that publicly regulated and subsidized private ben- efits are the welfare state . The welfare state is a ...
Contents
The Politics of Public and Private Social Benefits | 28 |
The Politics of Public and Private Pensions | 67 |
Introduction | 71 |
Connected at Birth Public and Private Pensions Before 1945 | 85 |
Sibling Rivalry Public and Private Pensions After 1945 | 124 |
The Politics of Public and Private Health Insurance | 175 |
Introduction | 179 |
Seeds of Exceptionalism Public and Private Health Insurance Before 1945 | 191 |
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