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Welfare discipline : discourse, governance, and globalization / / Sanford F. Schram



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Autore: Schram Sanford Visualizza persona
Titolo: Welfare discipline : discourse, governance, and globalization / / Sanford F. Schram Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
Disciplina: 361.6/1
361.61
361.680973
Soggetto topico: Public welfare
Social policy
Public welfare - United States
Public welfare - Europe
Globalization - Social aspects
Discourse analysis
Soggetto geografico: United States Social policy 1993-
Europe Social policy
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Truth of Globalization Discourse: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; 2 Reversed Polarities: The Incomplete Americanizationof European Welfare Policy; 3 Truth Is a Woman: Care as the Real Absence in the Post-Industrial Welfare State; 4 Welfare as Racemaking: Contextualizing Racial Disparitiesin Welfare Reform; 5 Recommodified Discourse: The Limits of the Asset-BuildingApproach to Fighting Poverty; 6 Deconstructing Dependency: Heading Toward a Counter-Discourse; 7 Compassionate Liberalism: Harm Reduction as a Postmodern Ethicfor the Welfare State; Index
About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: For the past decade, political scientist Sanford Schram has led the academic effort to understand how Americans and their political officials talk about poverty and welfare and what impact that discourse has on policy and on the global society. In Welfare Discipline, Schram argues that it is time to take stock of the new forms of welfare and to develop even better methods to understand them. He argues for a more contextualized approach to examining welfare policy, from the use of the idea of globalization to justify cutbacks, to the increasing employment of U.S. policy disc
Titolo autorizzato: Welfare Discipline  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-09366-1
9786611093662
1-59213-778-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828240203321
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