Notebooks
The Welfare State
20 Aug 2007 21:31
Recommended:
- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, "Is Equality
Passe? Homo reciprocans and the Future of Egalitarian Politics,"
Boston Review Dec. 1998
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, speech
on welfare reform in the Senate, 16 September 1995: "It will be the first
time in the history of the nation that we have repealed a section of the Social
Security Act. That the White House should be eager to support such a law is
beyond my understanding, and certainly in thirty-four years' service in
Washington, beyond my experience.... Do not pretend that you know what you do
not know. Look at the beginnings of research and evaluation that say, `Very
hard, not clear.' Do not hurt children on the basis of an unproven theory and
untested hypothesis."
- Andrew J. Polsky, The Rise of the Therapeutic State
- Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn, "The At-Risk-Youth Industry,"
Atlantic Monthly December 2002 [online]
To read:
- A. B. Atkinson, The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the
Welfare State [Blurb]
- Pranab Bardhan, Samuel Bowles and Michael Wallerstein (eds.),
Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution
[Blurb]
- Nicholas Barr, The Economics of the Welfare State
- Edward D. Berkowitz, America's Welfare State: From Roosevelt
to Reagan
- Brown, Race, Money, and the American Welfare State
- Andrea Louise Campbell, How Policies Make Citizens:
Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State
[Blurb]
- Francis Castles, The Future of the Welfare State: Crisis
Myths and Crisis Realities
[Reviewed in
The Historical Journal by Salvatore Pitruzzello. Abstract of
review: "As Francis Castles observes, quantitative comparative political
economy has generated a 'cacophony' of explanations for the welfare state
crisis from 1980 to 1998. Political economists have identified causal factors
including globalization, de-industrialization, population aging, declining
birth rates, weak economic performance, welfare program maturation, political
institutions, and partisanship. To Castles, however, these explanations rest on
faulty empirical evidence. Methodological problems—in particular,
unreliable comparative social expenditure data and overreliance on pooled
designs and statistical techniques—have made it impossible to distinguish
'crisis myths' from 'crisis realities.' His proposed solution is to combine
cross-national designs with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development's SOCX database on social spending, and he argues that doing so
reveals that dominant theories are myths. His sweeping account is a spirited
contribution, but it is bound to attract significant criticism."]
- Janet M. Currie, The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the
Nation's Poor Children and Families
[Blurb, intro]
- Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy, Capital Resurgent: Roots
of the Neoliberal Revolution [Blurb]
- Neil Gilbert, Transformation of the Welfare State:
The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility
- Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and
the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
[Blurb, intro]
- Sanneke Kuipers, The Crisis Imperative: Crisis Rhetoric and
Welfare State Reform in Belgium and the Netherlands in the Early 1990
[Blurb]
- Peter Lindert, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic
Growth Since the Eighteenth Century [Blurb;
an interesting
discussion]
- Charles Lochart, Gaining Ground: Tailoring Social Programs to
American Values [Probably now obsolete --- it was written in 1989 ---
but might be worth looking at. Online]
- Isabela Mares, The Politics of Social Risk: Business and
Welfare State Development
- David A. Moss, When All Else Fails: Government as the
Ultimate Risk Manager
- Max Neiman, Defending Government: Why Big Government
Works
- Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, The Breaking of
the American Social Compact
- Monica Prasad, The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of
Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United
State [Blurb]
- Elliott Sclar, You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The
Economics of Privatization
