Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda

Abstract

Introduction: What Went Right? Why the Clinton Administration Did Not Alter The Trajectory in Federal Policy: Michael Schwartz (SUNY-Stony Brook). Part I: Welfare, Social Security, and the State of Austerity: 1. Welfare and the Transformation of American Politics: Frances Fox Piven (CUNY-Graduate Center). 2. The Democratic Party and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Ron Walters (University of Maryland). 3. Urban America: Crushed in the Growth Machine: Harvey Molotch (University of California, Santa Barbara). 4. Rhetoric, Recision, and Reaction: The Development of Homelessness Policy: Cynthia Bogard (Hofstra), and J. Jeff McConnell (SUNY-Stony Brook). 5. Social Security Policy and the Entitlement Debate: The New American Exceptionalism: Jill Quadagno (Florida State University). Part II: Welfare-Warfare Spending, Technology, and the Global Economy: 6. Wealth and Poverty in the National Economy: The Domestic Foundations of Clinton's Global Policy: Morris Morley (Macquarie University) and James Petras (SUNY - Binghampton). 7. America's Military Industrial Make-Over: Ann Markusen (Council on Foreign Relations). 8. Big Missions and Big Business: Military and Corporate Dominance of Federal Science Policy: Gregory Hooks (Washington State) and Gregory McLauchlan (University of Oregon). 9. Active-competitive Industrial Policy: From Elite Project to Logics of Action: J. Kenneth Benson and Nick Paretsky (University of Missouri). 10. Where Are All the Democrats?The Limits of Economic Policy Reform: Patrick Akard (Skidmore College). 11. Failure of Health-Care Reform: The Role of Big Business in Policy Formation: Beth Mintz (University of Vermont). Part III: Acting Out Ideology: 12. The Malignant Masses on CNN: Media Use of Public Opinion Polls to Fabricate the Conservative Majority against Health-Care Reform: Clarence Y. H. Lo (University of Missouri). 13. Popular Consensus or Political Extortion?Making Soldiers the Means and Ends of U. S. Military Deployments: Jerry Lee Lembcke (Holy Cross College). 14. Theorizing and Politicizing Choice in the 1996 election: Zillah Eisenstein (Ithica College). 15. The Right Family Values: Judith Stacey (University of Southern California). 16. Contradictions in the Agenda: Welfare Reform and Reproductive Politics on a Collision Course: Carole Joffe (University of California - Davis). Conclusion. Business Action, Acting, and Institutional Enactment: Economic Constraints on Social Policy: Clarence Y. H. Lo (University of Missouri). List of Contributors. Index.