America's Welfare State

From Roosevelt to Reagan
Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4128-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

Reihe: The American Moment

Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.

Descriving the uneasy evolution of America's welfare programs, Berkowitz explains how the Social Security program became popular, why it almost went bankrupt, and why its long-term prospects for solvency remain uncertain. He traces changing public perceptions of social welfare goals, from providing secure entitlements for the eldery in the 1930s and 1940s to making payments to illegitimate children and their mothers in the 1950s and 1960s. He also explores the question of national health insurnace, noting that the United States outspends Japan on health care per capita by a margin of tow to one, and yea millions of Americans remain without health insurance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berkowitz, Edward D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. The Social Security Crisis
Chapter 2. Inventing Social Security, 1935
Chapter 3. The Triump of Social Security, 1936-1954
Chapter 4. The Day of Reckoning
Part II. The Frustrations of Welfare Reform
Chapter 5. Welfare's State, 1935-1967
Chapter 6. Welfare Restated, 1967-1988
Part III. The Mirage of National Health Insurance
Chapter 7. Medicare and Health Policy, 1935-1989
Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Long-Term Care of the Welfare State
A Note on the Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berkowitz, Edward D.
Edward D. Berkowitz, professor of history at George Washington University, has participated in the making of social welfare policy as a policy analyst at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and as a senior staffmember of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. He is the author of Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped.