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According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptionalexceptionally stingy and backwards. But Edwin Amenta reminds us here that sixty years ago the United States led the world in spending on social provision. He combines history and political theory to account for this surprising factand to explain why the country's leading role was shortlived.The orthodox view is that American social policy began in the 1930s as a twotrack system of miserly 'welfare' for the unemployed and generous 'social security' for the elderly. However, Amenta shows that the New Deal was in fact a bold program of relief, committed to providing jobs and income support for the unemployed. Social security was, by comparison, a policy afterthought. By the late 1930s, he shows, the U.S. pledged more of its gross national product to relief programs than did any other major industrial country.Amenta develops and uses an institutional politics theory to explain how social policy expansion was driven by northern Democrats, statebased reformers, and political outsiders. And he shows that retrenchment in the 1940s was led by politicians from areas where beneficiaries of relief were barred from voting. He also considers why some programs were nationalized, why some states had farreaching 'little New Deals,' and why Britainotherwise so similar to the United Statesadopted more generous social programs. Bold Relief will transform our understanding of the roots of American social policy and of the institutional and political dynamics that will shape its future.
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