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 xi
... encourage or rechannel private - sector activities , or they might choose to do nothing at all . Myriad possibilities , of course , lie between these options , each relying on different governing instru- ments from spending to tax ...
... encourage or rechannel private - sector activities , or they might choose to do nothing at all . Myriad possibilities , of course , lie between these options , each relying on different governing instru- ments from spending to tax ...
Page xiv
... encouragement and constructive criticism . Yet Paul has also been a unique influence on my thinking about how to bring temporal processes into the study of politics . If " politics and history " becomes more than a place - name for ...
... encouragement and constructive criticism . Yet Paul has also been a unique influence on my thinking about how to bring temporal processes into the study of politics . If " politics and history " becomes more than a place - name for ...
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... benefits to cut costs and encourage self - reliance . Coverage under workplace plans has dropped , benefits have grown more unequal , and recipients have faced both more restrictions and more of the 6 The American Welfare Regime.
... benefits to cut costs and encourage self - reliance . Coverage under workplace plans has dropped , benefits have grown more unequal , and recipients have faced both more restrictions and more of the 6 The American Welfare Regime.
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... Encouraged to provide benefits by a diverse assortment of subsidies and regulations , these actors account for more than a third of U.S. social welfare expen- ditures , compared with less than a tenth on average in other industrial ...
... Encouraged to provide benefits by a diverse assortment of subsidies and regulations , these actors account for more than a third of U.S. social welfare expen- ditures , compared with less than a tenth on average in other industrial ...
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... encourage continued reliance on established institutions of social provision . Timing and sequence , by influencing ... encouraging private benefits , by contrast , has occurred through more subterranean political and judicial processes ...
... encourage continued reliance on established institutions of social provision . Timing and sequence , by influencing ... encouraging private benefits , by contrast , has occurred through more subterranean political and judicial processes ...
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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