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The Handbook of Social Policy is an attempt to document the now substantial body of knowledge about government social policies that has been accumulated since the study of social policy first emerged as an organized field of academic endeavor about 50 years ago. The Second Edition offers a more streamlined format to make the book more consistent with the way most instructors teach their courses. This text is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to a vast field of endeavor that has, over the years, made a significant difference to the lives and the well-being of the people of the United States.
Social Policy of the New Deal
Social Policy of the New Deal
Scholars consider the New Deal a defining moment in American public life (Bordo, Goldin, & White, 1998). A major change in American attitudes toward government and the economy took place, and social policies were formulated that were to define public life for the rest of the century. Other scholars, although not denying the changes, point out the continuities underlying them (Dubofsky, 1979/1992). It seems fair to conclude, however, that the efforts of Franklin Roosevelt's government to pull the country out of a catastrophic depression produced a degree of creative experimentation in social policy that has never been equaled in U.S. history.
Interpretations of the social and political meaning of the New Deal are numerous and ...
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