Welfare As We Knew It : A Political History of the American Welfare State.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- One: The Problem -- Beyond Culture -- Interests -- Institutions -- A Synthetic Approach -- Two: An Unusually Inhospitable Environment for Reform -- The Class Struggle, American-Style -- The State and Welfare -- Choosing Liberalism -- Three: Progressives -- A Vacuum on the Left -- The Defense of the Market -- Women and Children First -- A Wrong Turn -- Four: The New Deal -- A Second Window Opens -- The Southern Problem -- Building from the Center -- The Window Closes -- The New Deal -- The Path Not Taken -- Five: The Great Society -- A Third Window Opens -- Complicating Factors -- The Flood Tide of Liberalism -- The Window Closes -- The Great Society -- The Path Not Taken -- Six: Backlash -- Right Turn -- Race and the New Deal Coalition -- The Antinomies of State Power -- The Conservative Revolution in Social Policy -- The Liberal Defense of the Welfare State -- Seven: The Future of Reform -- Building from the Left? -- Can Conservatism Succeed? -- Liberalism Redux? -- A New Liberalism? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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