Deserving and entitled : social constructions and public policy / / edited by Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram
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| Titolo: |
Deserving and entitled : social constructions and public policy / / edited by Anne L. Schneider and Helen M. Ingram
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xiii, 371 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 320.6/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social groups - Political aspects - United States |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government |
| Altri autori: |
SchneiderAnne L
IngramHelen M. <1937->
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-356) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy -- Contents -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION: Public Policy and the Social Construction of Deservedness -- PART I: Historical Roots of Constructions of Deservedness and Entitlement -- 1. Constructing and Entitling America's Original Veterans -- 2. Constructing the Democratic Citizen: Idiocy and Insanity in American Suffrage Law -- 3. From "Problem Minority"to "Model Minority": The Changing Social Construction of Japanese Americans -- PART II: Congressional Discourse: Forging Lines of Division between Deserving and Undeserving -- 4. Contested Images of Race and Place:The Politics of Housing Discrimination -- 5. "It Is Not a Question of Being Anti-immigration": Categories of Deservedness in Immigration Policy Making -- PART III: Nonprofits, Neighborhood Organizations, and the Social Construction of Deservedness -- 6. The Construction of Client Identities in a Post-welfare Social Service Program: The Double Bind of Microenterprise Development -- 7. Deservedness in Poor Neighborhoods: A Morality Struggle -- PART IV: Constructions by Moral Entrepreneurs and Policy Analysts -- 8. From Perception to Public Policy: Translating Social Constructions into Policy Designs -- 9. Jezebels, Matriarchs, and Welfare Queens: The Moynihan Report of 1965 and the Social Construction of African-American Women in Welfare Policy -- 10. Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad -- PART V: Social Constructions, Identity, Citizenship, and Participation -- 11. Making Clients and Citizens: Welfare Policy as a Source of Status, Belief, and Action -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Explores the contradictions between the American ideal of equality and the realities of public policy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Deserving and entitled |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8383-5 |
| 1-4237-4377-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808143503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series in public policy.