The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy [electronic resource] : Ideological Roots of Inequality /
Hevenstone, Debra.author.
The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy examines how implementing American tropes in policy design inadvertently frustrates policy goals. The book investigates multiple market-oriented designs including funding for private organizations to deliver public services, funding for individuals to buy services, and policies incentivizing or mandating private actors to provide social policy. Hevenstone shows that these solutions often not only fail to achieve social goals, but actively undermine them. The book carefully details the mechanisms through which this occurs, and examines several policies in depth, covering universal social insurance programs like healthcare and pensions, as well as smaller interventions like programs for the homeless.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: THEORY1. Defining Social Goals: Pragmatism, Empiricism, and the Social Debate -- 2. Social Policy Design: Market-Oriented Solutions, Rationality, and Federalism ; PART II: POLICY -- 3.Labor Markets: Wages, the Employer's Role, and Family Policy -- 4.Social Insurance: Health, Pensions, and Long-Term Care -- 5.Targeted Programs: Housing, Homelessness, and Youth Training -- 6.Social Pressure: Health Behaviors, Bullying, Prejudice, and Discrimination.
The American Myth of Markets in Social Policy examines how implementing American tropes in policy design inadvertently frustrates policy goals. The book investigates multiple market-oriented designs including funding for private organizations to deliver public services, funding for individuals to buy services, and policies incentivizing or mandating private actors to provide social policy. Hevenstone shows that these solutions often not only fail to achieve social goals, but actively undermine them. The book carefully details the mechanisms through which this occurs, and examines several policies in depth, covering universal social insurance programs like healthcare and pensions, as well as smaller interventions like programs for the homeless.
Poverty.
Welfare state.
Culture.
Economic development.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Ethnology.
Development Aid.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Sociology of Culture.
Development Studies.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Cultural Anthropology.