Welfare discipline : discourse, governance, and globalization / / Sanford F. Schram
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| Autore: |
Schram Sanford
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| Titolo: |
Welfare discipline : discourse, governance, and globalization / / Sanford F. Schram
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-281-09366-1 |
| 9786611093662 | |
| 1-59213-778-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828240203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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