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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455015303321

Autore

Cohen Sally Solomon

Titolo

Championing child care [[electronic resource] /] / Sally S. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2001

ISBN

0-231-11237-8

0-231-50452-7

Descrizione fisica

xix, 397 p

Collana

Power, conflict, and democracy

Altri autori (Persone)

DoddSenator Christopher

Disciplina

362.71/2

Soggetti

Child care - Government policy - United States

Child care - Political aspects - United States

Child care services - Government policy - United States

Child care services - Law and legislation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-374) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Dodd, Christopher -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1971 -- 3. From Political Stalemate to Welfare Entitlement, 1972-1988 -- 4. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1987-1990 -- 5. Regulations, Implementation, and High Expectations, 1991-1993 -- 6. Child Care and Welfare Reform, 1994-1996 -- 7. High Hopes, 1997-2000 -- 8. A View from the States, 1996-2000 -- 9. Looking Back and to the Future -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Why has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch officials, archival research, and secondary sources, this book looks at the politics behind child care legislation, rather than analyzing child care as a work and family issue. Identifying key junctures at which major child care bills were introduced and debated (1971, 1990, and 1996), Sally Cohen examines the politics surrounding each of these events and identifies the political structures and negotiations that evolved in the intervening years. In addition, Cohen



looks at the impact the election of President Clinton has had on child care policymaking, and how child care legislation became part of other issues, including welfare reform, crime prevention, school readiness, and tax policy revisions.