American Social Welfare Policy: Dynamics of Formulation and Change by David A. Rochefort

Author:David A. Rochefort [Rochefort, David A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, American Government, Political Science, Social Science, National
ISBN: 9780813302430
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Goodreads: 994999
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1986-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

Social and Intellectual Background

During the 1950s and 1960s in America, the composition of citizens on public assistance changed dramatically and new, if not wholly original, theories were advanced to explain the condition of dependency. As a related development, in thiis same period the United States welfare system increasingly came to be recognized as a dismal failure that sustained a host of social evils. To be sure, these demographic and intellectual shifts could be used to support more than one understanding of the problem of dependency, and many intellectuals and social activists took pains to formulate and express nonjudgmental points of view on the subject. On balance, however, the dominant image to emerge in these years seemed to be that of a mass of chronically dependent citizens who lacked the psychological and moral qualities that could lift them into the more prosperous mainstream of American society.

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