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Public policy in the United States is marked by a contradiction between the American ideal of equality and the reality of an underclass of marginalized and disadvantaged people who are widely viewed as undeserving and incapable. Deserving and Entitled provides a close inspection of many different policy arenas, showing how the use of power and the manipulation of images have made it appear both natural and appropriate that some target populations benefit from policy, while others do not. These social constructions of deservedness and entitlement, unless challenged, become amplified over time and institutionalized into permanent lines of social, economic, and political cleavage. The contributors here express concern that too often public policy sends messages harmful to democracy and contributes significantly to the pattern of uneven political participation in the United States.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vii
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. ix-xiii
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  1. INTRODUCTION: Public Policy and the Social Construction of Deservedness
  2. pp. 1-28
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  1. PART I: Historical Roots of Constructions of Deservedness and Entitlement
  2. pp. 29-33
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  1. 1. Constructing and Entitling America’s Original Veterans
  2. pp. 35-62
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  1. 2. Constructing the Democratic Citizen: Idiocy and Insanity in American Suffrage Law
  2. pp. 63-80
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  1. 3. From “Problem Minority” to “Model Minority”: The Changing Social Construction of Japanese Americans
  2. pp. 81-103
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  1. PART II: Congressional Discourse: Forging Lines of Division between Deserving and Undeserving
  2. pp. 105-110
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  1. 4. Contested Images of Race and Place:The Politics of Housing Discrimination
  2. pp. 111-137
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  1. 5. “It Is Not a Question of Being Anti-immigration”: Categories of Deservedness in Immigration Policy Making
  2. pp. 139-167
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  1. PART III: Nonprofits, Neighborhood Organizations, and the Social Construction of Deservedness
  2. pp. 169-172
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  1. 6. The Construction of Client Identities in a Post-welfare Social Service Program: The Double Bind of Microenterprise Development
  2. pp. 173-196
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  1. 7. Deservedness in Poor Neighborhoods: A Morality Struggle
  2. pp. 197-218
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  1. PART IV: Constructions by Moral Entrepreneurs and Policy Analysts
  2. pp. 219-221
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  1. 8. From Perception to Public Policy: Translating Social Constructions into Policy Designs
  2. pp. 223-242
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  1. 9. Jezebels, Matriarchs, and Welfare Queens: The Moynihan Report of 1965 and the Social Construction of African-American Women in Welfare Policy
  2. pp. 243-259
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  1. 10. Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad
  2. pp. 261-286
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  1. PART V: Social Constructions, Identity, Citizenship, and Participation
  2. pp. 287-290
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  1. 11. Making Clients and Citizens: Welfare Policy as a Source of Status, Belief, and Action
  2. pp. 291-328
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  1. References
  2. pp. 329-356
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 357-360
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 361-371
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