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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462865103321

Autore

Mackin Glenn David

Titolo

The politics of social welfare in America / / Glenn David Mackin, University of Rochester [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-23720-3

1-107-33587-6

1-107-33262-1

1-107-33338-5

1-107-33670-8

1-107-33504-3

1-139-24142-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

361.60973

Soggetti

Public welfare - United States

Poor - Government policy - United States

People with disabilities - United States

People with disabilities - Government policy - United States

United States Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The aporia of practical reason : from ethics to politics -- The aporia of social rights -- Welfare discourse as a narrative of political founding -- Otherwise than need -- Needing rights -- Politics, not ontology.

Sommario/riassunto

The Politics of Social Welfare in America examines how politicians, theorists and citizens discuss need, welfare and disability with respect to theoretical and political projects. Glenn David Mackin argues that participants in these discussions often miss the way their perceptions of those in need shape their discourse. Professor Mackin also explores disability rights groups and welfare rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s to examine the ways that those designated as needy or incompetent often challenge these designations, thus making the issue of welfare an ongoing conflict over who counts as competent and



generating new ways of understanding democracy and equality.