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How did American welfare policy move from the ambitious and altruistic goals of LBJ's Great Society of the 1960s to the punitive and penurious provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of 1996?
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How did American welfare policy move from the ambitious and altruistic goals of LBJ's Great Society of the 1960s to the punitive and penurious provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of 1996? This book explores the power of ideology and rhetoric in the transformation of the American liberal welfare state. Based on historical analysis, detailed public policy critique, and original interview data, the story that unfolds is one of both personality and politics. Author Brendon O'Connor places the American welfare policy debate in wider perspective, showing how America's particular use of ideas and conceptions of economics and politics worked to reshape the national perception of poverty, morality, and economic responsibility over time.
Through wide reading, close textual analysis, and dozens of talks with liberal and conservative figures including Peter Edelman, David Ellwood, Ron Haskins, and Representatives E. Clay Shaw, Jr., Jim McCrery, and Sandy Levin, O'Connor dramatically demonstrates the shift in American welfare policy from left to right. This acute outside perspective enables us to see clearly just how we have arrived at the current post-liberal welfare era in the United States.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 I The Liberal Welfare System
Chapter 3 Liberalism and Welfare: The Ideological and Political Roots of the American Welfare System
Chapter 4 The Liberal Consensus and the Great Society
Chapter 5 The Seeds of Doom for Liberalism
Part 6 II The Conservative Attack on Welfare Liberalism
Chapter 7 The Neoconservatives
Chapter 8 Reagan's Conservatives: The Supply-Siders, George Gilder, and Charles Murray
Chapter 9 The New Right
Chapter 10 A Populist Backlash?
Part 11 III The Emergence of a Conservative Welfare System
Chapter 12 Bill Clinton's Third Way Welfare Politics: Innovation, Compromise, and Capitulation
Chapter 13 Newt Gingrich, the Contract with Americaand Justifying the PRWORA
Chapter 14 Conservative Welfare Policy in Practice
