Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality

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Contents About the Authors Vll PART I INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 The New Politics of Inequality: A Policy-Centered 3 Perspective Jacob S. Hacker, Suzanne Mettler, andJoe Sass PART II POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE NEW POLITICS OF 25 INEQUALITY Chapter 2 Constricting the Welfare State: Tax Policy and the 27 Political Movement Against Government Kimberly J Morgan Chapter 3 Entrepreneurial Litigation: Advocacy Coalitions and 51 Strategies in the Fragmented American Welfare State R. Shep Melnick PART III ELITE EFFORTS TO RESHAPE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE 75 Chapter 4 The Implementation and Evolution of Medicare: 77 The Distributional Effects of "Positive" Policy Feedbacks Lawrence R. Jacobs Chapter 5 A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy 99 Feedback Joe Sass and Sanford F Schram PART IV POLICIES AND PARTICIPATION: THE INTERPLAY OF 119 STRUCTURE AND AGENCY Chapter 6 Universalism, Targeting, and Participation 121 Andrea Louise Campbell Chapter 7 Institutions and Agents in the Politics of Welfare 141 Cutbacks Frances Fox Piven vi RemakingAmerica PART V THE PEOPLE THAT POLICIES MAKE: ROLES, IDENTITIES, 157 AND DEMOCRACIES Chapter 8 Policies of Racial Classification and the Politics of 159 Racial Inequality Jennifer Hochschild and Vesla Weaver Chapter 9 Welfare Policy and the Transformation of Care 183 Deborah Stone PART VI THE STATE'S NEW LOOK: DECENTRALIZATION, 203 INEQUALITY, AND SOCIAL CONTROL Chapter 10 The Promise of Progressive Federalism 205 Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers Chapter 11 The Political Consequences of Mass Imprisonment 228 Joshua Guetzkow andBruce Western PART VII PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: CONSTRUCTIVIST AND 243 INSTITUTIONALIST PERSPECTIVES Chapter 12 Poverty, Policy, and the Social Construction of 245 Target Groups Helen Ingram Chapter 13 Policy, Politics, and the Rise of Inequality 254 Paul Pierson Index 267 ...