Social policy

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

This very good book also has a good deal to say about the neglected
question of American exceptionalism. Some of the essays show how the US
differs from Europe in that formal democracy came into existence before
rather than after the development of the state bureaucracy which has
remained minimally legitimized and essentially smaller. This has
retarded the development of social welfare, and maintained it on a
residual basis.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema


> On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> >    The UC, Berkeley Political Science faculty, unlike the Sociology Dept. ,
> > is heavily tilted rightwards. Only lefty I can think of there is Michael
> > Rogin.
> > http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/
> > Two others, Wendy Brown, "
> > "Left Legalism/Left Critique, " (co-edited with Janet Halley) (Duke,
> > forthcoming 2000).
> > And M. Weir, "The Politics of Social Policy in the United States (Princeton,
> > N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988) (co-edited with Ann Shola Orloff and
> > Theda Skocpol); Schooling for All: Class, Race and the Decline of the
> > Democratic Ideal (New York: Basic Books, 1985) (with Ira Katznelson). She is
> > currently at work on a study of metropolitan inequalities and city-suburban
> > politics in the United States.
> > M.P.
> >
> > Michael Pugliese
> >
>
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