Author: Lo, Clarence Y. H. & Schwartz, Michael; editors:
Title: Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda
Description: Malden [MA] / Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, (1998). orig.boards. 25x16cm, ix,324 pp. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contains 16 papers. Includes: M. Schwartz "What Went Right? Why the Clinton Administration Did Not Alter the Conservative Trajectory in Foreign Polícy"; F.F. Piven "Welfare & the Transformation of Electoral Politics"; R. Alters "The Democratic Party & the Politics of Welfare Reform"; J. Molotch "Urban America Crushed in the Growth Machine"; C.J. Bogard & J.J. McConnell "Rhetoric, Recision & Reaction: The Development of Homelessness Policy"; J. Quadagno "Social Security Policy & the Entitlement Debate: The New American Exceptionalism"; M. Morley & J. Petras "Wealth & Poverty in the National Economy: The Domestic Foundations of Clinton's Global Policy"; A. Markusen "Ameirca's Military Industrial Make-Over"; G. Hooks & G. McLauchlan "Big Missions & Big Business: Military & Corporate Dominance of Federal Science Policy"; J.K. Benson & N.Paretksy "Active-Competitive Industrial Policy From Elite Project to Logic of Action"; P. Akard "Where Are All the Democrats? The Limits of Economic Policy Reform"; B. Mintz "The Failure of Health-Care Reform: The Role of Big Business in Policy Formation"; C.Y.H. Lo "The Malignant Masses on CNN: Media Use of Public Opinion Polls to Fabricate the 'Conservative Majority' Against Health-care Reforms"; J.L. Lembcke "Popular Consensus or Political Extortion? Making Soldiers the Means & Ends of US Military Deployments"; Z. Eisenstein "Theorizing & Politicizing Choice in the 1996 Election"; J. Stacey "The Right Family Values"; etc.

Keywords: American Social Policy, United States, Conservatism, Conservative, Sociology Clinton, Government, Health-Care Reform, Welfare Economics, Political History