Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform

by Edward Berkowitz, Kim McQuaid, Edward D. Berkowitz

Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, this important volume employs interdisciplinary techniques to demonstrate how politics, economics, law, and social theory merged over the course of a century of policy formulation and implementation. The authors also draw...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275927474
• ISBN13: 9780275927479
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"