Caring for Our Own

Caring for Our Own
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780199993147
ISBN-13 : 0199993149
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Book Synopsis Caring for Our Own by : Sandra R. Levitsky

Download or read book Caring for Our Own written by Sandra R. Levitsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare needs as the basis for demands for new state entitlements? The answer, Sandra Levitsky argues, lies in a better understanding of how individuals imagine solutions to the social welfare problems they confront and what prevents new understandings of social welfare provision from developing into political demand for alternative social arrangements. Caring for Our Own considers the powerful ways in which existing social policies shape the political imagination, reinforcing longstanding values about family responsibility, subverting grievances grounded in notions of social responsibility, and in some rare cases, constructing new models of social provision that transcend existing ideological divisions in American social politics.


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