The reluctant welfare state
Subtitle: American welfare policies--past, present, and future
By: Bruce S. Jansson.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States -- History.; United States -- Social policy.; United States -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes passcode to InfoTrac college edition.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Social reform in a society with conflicting tendencies; value: A framework for understanding the evolution of the reluctant welfare states; value: Fashioning a new society in the wilderness; value: Social welfare policy in the early republic: 1789-1860; value: Lost, opportunities: the frontier, the Civil War, and industrialization; value: Social reform in the Progressive Era; value: The early stages of the New Deal; value: Institutionalizing the New Deal; value: The Era of Federal social services: the New Frontier and the Great Society; value: The Paradoxical Era: 1968-1980; value: The Conservative counterrevolution in the Era of Reagan and Bush; value: Reluctance illustrated: policy uncertainty during the Clinton Administration; value: Bush's quest for realignment; value: Why has the American welfare state been reluctant; value: and what can we do about it?