Welfare State 3.0

This book identifies specific changes to bring US social policy in accord with the information age of the 21st century, in contrast to the policy infrastructure of industrial America.

Auteur

David Stoesz is founder and CEO, Up$tart, and a former Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Birmingham and Carnegie Mellon University-Australia/Flinders University.

Texte du rabat

This book identifies specific changes to bring U.S. social policy in accord with the Information Age of the 21st century, in contrast to the policy infrastructure of industrial America. Welfare State 3.0: Social Policy after the Pandemic acknowledges the existing social infrastructure, considers viable options, and provides supporting data to suggest social policy reform by four strategies: consolidating programs, harmonizing applications, expanding equity, and conducting experiments. The book favors discreet, poignant proposals of social programs. In 12 chapters, the text provides an analysis that honors past accomplishments, recognizes the influence of established stakeholders, and concedes program inadequacies, while plotting specific opportunities for policy improvement. In contrast to liberalism's tendency toward idealism, the book adopts a realpolitik appreciation for social policy.

Written by one of the most respected academics of U.S. social policy, this book will be required reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of social policy, social work, sociology, and U.S. politics more broadly.

Contenu

Prologue: Mary and Her Baby

Chapter 1: Crisis

Chapter 2: Forsaking African Americans

Chapter 3: Framing the Welfare State

Chapter 4: Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty

Chapter 5: Convolution

Chapter 6: The Problem from Purgatory

Chapter 7: Policy Paradigms

Chapter 8: Consolidate Programs

Chapter 9: Harmonize Applications

Chapter 10: Expand Equity

Chapter 11: Conduct Experiments

Chapter 12: Inflection

Acknowledgments

Index