Remaking America
Subtitle: democracy and public policy in an age of inequality
By: [edited by] Joe Soss, Jacob S. Hacker, Suzanne Mettler.
Contributors: Soss, Joe, 1967-; Hacker, Jacob S.; Mettler, Suzanne.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780871543516
Subjects: Equality -- United States; Distributive justice -- United States; Public welfare -- United States; Marginality, Social -- United States; United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
Table of contents: title: The new politics of inequality : a policy-centered perspective / Jacob S. Hacker, Suzanne Mettler, Joe Soss; title: Constricting the welfare state : tax policy and the political movement against government / Kimberly J. Morgan; title: Entrepreneurial litigation : advocacy coalitions and strategies in the fragmented American welfare state / R. Shep Melnick; title: The implementation and evolution of Medicare : the distributional effects of "positive" policy feedbacks / Lawrence R. Jacobs; title: A public transformed? : welfare reform as policy feedback / Joe Soss, Sanford F. Schram; title: Universalism, targeting, and participation / Andrea Louise Campbell; title: Institutions and agents in the politics of welfare cutbacks / Frances Fox Piven; title: Policies of racial classification and the politics of racial inequality / Jennifer Hochschild, Vesla Weaver; title: Welfare policy and the transformation of care / Deborah Stone; title: The promise of progressive federalism / Richard B. Freeman, Joel Rogers; title: The political consequences of mass imprisonment / Josh Guetzkow, Bruce Western; title: Poverty, policy, and the social construction of target groups / Helen Ingram; title: Policy, politics, and the rise of inequality / Paul Pierson.