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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The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Jacob S. Hacker. At a time of fierce conflict over U.S. social policy ... WELFARE STATE The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits THE DIVIDED WELFARE STATE.
The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Jacob S. Hacker. At a time of fierce conflict over U.S. social policy ... WELFARE STATE The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits THE DIVIDED WELFARE STATE.
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The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Jacob S. Hacker. Tables II.I Welfare - State Types and After - Tax Public and Private Social Spending , 1995 I.I The Continuum of Social Policy Approaches 1.2 Share ...
The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Jacob S. Hacker. Tables II.I Welfare - State Types and After - Tax Public and Private Social Spending , 1995 I.I The Continuum of Social Policy Approaches 1.2 Share ...
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The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Jacob S. Hacker. Figures II.I Public Social Welfare Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP in Eleven Nations , 1995 I1.2 After - Tax Public and Private Social Welfare ...
The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Jacob S. Hacker. Figures II.I Public Social Welfare Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP in Eleven Nations , 1995 I1.2 After - Tax Public and Private Social Welfare ...
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... social welfare aims and the wider realm of private social benefits that these policies encour- age and shape . None of this is missed entirely , of course . How could it be when Americans depend so heavily on private workplace benefits ...
... social welfare aims and the wider realm of private social benefits that these policies encour- age and shape . None of this is missed entirely , of course . How could it be when Americans depend so heavily on private workplace benefits ...
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The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Jacob S. Hacker. remain unrecognized . At a more fundamental level , however , it reflects the fact that we lack strong rationales for treating these broader policy ...
The Battle Over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Jacob S. Hacker. remain unrecognized . At a more fundamental level , however , it reflects the fact that we lack strong rationales for treating these broader policy ...
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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