Retrenchment in the American welfare state
Subtitle: the Reagan and Clinton administrations in comparative perspective
By: Martin Schuldes
Series: Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas -- Bd. 30; Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas -- Bd. 30.
Publisher: Lit; Global [distributor]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 675
ISBN-13: 9783643901538
Subjects: Politics and government; Welfare state; Economic conditions; History
Description: "The consolidation of public finance has become the most prevalent topic in recent policy discourse in the US. However, the political debate about fiscal "belt-tightening" stretches back to the last decades of the past millennium, induced by deteriorating economic conditions which followed the first oil price shock in the early 1970s. Retrenchment in the American Welfare State investigates to what extent different welfare state programs in the US were affected by cutbacks during the Republican Reagan era, on the one hand, and during the Democratic Clinton era on the other, and to what extent these cutbacks reveal certain "patterns" of retrenchment, and how the measured discrepancies can best be explained."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Thesis (doctoral)--Free University, Berlin, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [615]-675).