Corporate welfare policy and the welfare state
Subtitle: bank deregulation and the savings and loan bailout
By: Davita Silfen Glasberg and Dan Skidmore.
Contributors: Skidmore, Dan.
Series: Social institutions and social change
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Savings and loan associations -- Deregulation -- United States; Savings and loan associations -- Government policy -- United States; Banks and banking -- Government policy -- United States; Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989-1995
Description: An examination of the savings and loan crisis and subsequent bailout reveals that the welfare state is a dynamic process: the bailout is an extension of a larger process of state projects for economic intervention that began with banking regulation following the Great Depression of the 1930s, and continued with the Chrysler bailout legislation in 1979 and the Garn-St. Germain Act of 1982, which deregulated the banking industry.

In viewing the welfare state as a power process involving shifts in relative emphases on corporate and social welfare policies and expenditures, this book provides both central case studies and a new conceptual framework for policy debates on "welfare as we know it."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-167) and index.