The Divided Welfare State

The Divided Welfare State by Jacob S Hacker

The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is less expensive and extensive, later to develop and slower to grow, than comparable programs abroad. American social spending is as high as spending in many European nations. What is distinctive is that so many social welfare duties are handled by the private sector with government support. With historical reach and statistical and cross-national evidence, The Divided Welfare State demonstrates that private social benefits have not been shaped by public policy, but have deeply influenced the politics of public social programs - to produce a social policy framework whose political and social effects are strikingly different than often assumed. At a time of fierce new debates about social policy, this book is essential to understanding the roots of America's distinctive model and its future possibilities.

' … the interest of the book lies not just in the elegant explanatory model that he has developed and the illuminations that flow from his use of political science conceptsIt also has implications for the future of public policy not only in the United States.' Journal of Public Policy
'… this is an essential read for scholars of welfare state development'. Political Studies Review
'Even if the author is hardly referring to international comparisons, this impressive work is no doubt a must-read for all European researchers working on social policy … Thanks to massive historical evidence, abundant statistical and bibliographical material, a rigorous theoretical framework, and an original vision of what should be the agenda of social policy research, The Divided Welfare State is sometimes surprising, often captivating, and always stimulating. In short, it would not be exaggerated to conclude that Jacob S. Hacker has written an instant classic.' Journal of European Social Policy

Jacob S. Hacker is Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is author of The Divided Welfare State and The Road to Nowhere and, and most recently, co-author of Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. A
frequent commentator on NPR, PBS, and CNN, Hacker has written for The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.

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ISBN 13	9780521013284
ISBN 10	0521013283
Title	The Divided Welfare State
Author	Jacob S Hacker
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2002-09-09
Number of pages	466
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