Съдържание:
  • Introduction: Welfare reform as a political and policy problem
  • Welfare as we knew it
  • Explaining welfare politics: context, choices, traps
  • The past as prologue
  • Welfare reform agendas in the 1990s
  • The role of policy research
  • Public opinion on welfare reform
  • Interest groups and welfare reform
  • Not ending welfare as we know it: the Clinton administration's welfare reform initiative
  • A new Congress, a new dynamic
  • Stop and go in the Senate
  • Endgames and aftershocks
  • Gaining ground? The new world of welfare
  • Welfare reform and the dynamics of American politics.