Price Of Citizenship Research Articles

Reinhardt’s Final Work

Reinhardt’s Final Work

Michael Katz's Contribution to Social and Social Welfare History

Michael Katz began work on social welfare during the late 1970s with a project entitled “The Casualties of Industrialization.” That project led to a series of essays, Poverty and Policy in American History (Katz 1983), and a few years later to In the Shadow of the Poorhouse (Katz 1986). His reading in twentieth-century literature for Shadow—and the ideological and policy nostrums of the Reagan administration—allowed Katz to pivot to two books that frame contemporary welfare debates in their historical context—The Undeserving Poor in 1989 and The Price of Citizenship in 2001, as well as a set of essays Improving Poor People (Katz 1995) that he published between the two.

Paying the Price of Citizenship: Gender and Social Policy on Venereal Disease in Stockholm, 1919-1944

This article studies how policy on venereal disease participated in the construction of twentieth-century Swedish citizenship. Contact tracing and mandatory medical treatment, the two cornerstones of the Swedish attempt to eradicate venereal disease, became part of the contemporary citizenship discourse. Policy on venereal disease in Sweden was administered by infectious disease officers in every county and provincial physicians in every district. These civil servants were helped by the local police, who searched for recalcitrant patients. To be fully entitled to the rights of free medical care required extensive cooperation from the ill, some of whom found it impossible to comply. In Stockholm women were more frequently targeted by this legislation and were often treated more severely.

Teaching and Learning Guide for: Assessing Welfare Reform, Over a Decade Later

Teaching and Learning Guide for: Assessing Welfare Reform, Over a Decade Later

Paying the Price of Citizenship

This article studies how policy on venereal disease participated in the construction of twentieth-century Swedish citizenship. Contact tracing and mandatory medical treatment, the two cornerstones of the Swedish attempt to eradicate venereal disease, became part of the contemporary citizenship discourse. Policy on venereal disease in Sweden was administered by infectious disease officers in every county and provincial physicians in every district. These civil servants were helped by the local police, who searched for recalcitrant patients. To be fully entitled to the rights of free medical care required extensive cooperation from the ill, some of whom found it impossible to comply. In Stockholm women were more frequently targeted by this legislation and were often treated more severely.

Reviews of Books:The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State Michael B. Katz

Reviews of Books:The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State Michael B. Katz

The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State. By Michael B. Katz. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. Pp. 469. $35.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper).

<i>The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State</i>. By Michael B. Katz. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. Pp. 469. $35.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper).

The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State

From earliest poor laws to the of welfare as we know it, definitive examination of question underlying all political debate in America: What does government owe individual? In The Price of Citizenship, culmination of twenty years of research and writing, historian Michael B. Katz traces evolution of welfare state from colonial relief programs to war on poverty to our own age of compassionate conservatism. He argues that in last decades three great forces -- a ferocious assault on depence; devolution of authority from federal government to states; and application of market models to social policy -- have affected every element of social contract and redefined both Republican and Democratic policy and rhetoric. Katz shows how these changes are propelling America toward a future of increased inequality and decreased security, while transforming citizenship from a right of birth to a privilege available only to fully employed. A magisterial overview, incisive and bold, The Price of Citizenship is sure to become a classic history of American welfare policy.

Perfectionist Liberalism, Tolerance And American Law

I attempt to show that toleranceis part of the idea of American law: for any legalsystem must incorporate the capacity toaccommodate differences in order to meet theminimal standards necessary to apply a rule. There are multiple forms of tolerance, however, some ofwhich are inconsistent with liberal principles.By examining several lines of jurisprudencerelating to speech and privacy, I show thatAmerican law reflects elements of bothliberalism and conservative communitarianism. I attempt to reconcile these by suggesting they actuallyreflect a perfectionist foundation of liberalautonomy. That is to say, American law doesnot value moral autonomy and reasoned discoursebecause they protect neutrality betweendifferent ideas of the good life: rather, thelaw reflects an idea of the good life that seesmoral autonomy as advancing well being.This perfectionist liberal foundation oftolerance reflects the evolution of Americanlaw. Through slavery, sexism and the controlof erotic speech we see how it expanded theideas of who is capable of rationaldiscourse and what activities incorporatethe exercise of reasoned moral autonomy;and how the law imposes this autonomouscapacity on individuals as the price ofcitizenship, even if they belong to groups whodeny the value of reason or autonomy.

The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State. By Michael B. Katz. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. Pp. 469. $35.00.

<i>The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State</i>. By Michael B. Katz. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001. Pp. 469. $35.00.

BILINGUALISM AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION: A GUEST EDITORIAL*

ABSTRACT: Peoples who speak a minority language are less and less willing to give up their mother tongues as the price of citizenship in the lands of their birth or adoption. We foreign language teachers must interest ourselves actively in the proper education of U. S. children who lack sufficient command of English to enable them to succeed in school. A child in any country or culture must (1) become literate in his own home language, (2) have all his common learnings in this language, (3) study English as a second language until his command of English is strong enough to allow English to be the medium for some of his instruction, the rest being conducted in the child's home language. Our aim must be to make the child bilingual in English and his own language and to make him equally proud of his progress in each. The products of such bilingual education prove to be brighter, more tolerant, and more perceptive about their own and the other culture than are otherwise comparable monolingual children.