Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781577181194
  • Weight: 794g
  • Dimensions: 180 x 255mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Jan 1998
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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A comprehensive collection of original essays by leading experts on social and econmic policy including Frances Fox Piven, Harvey Molotch, Jill Quadagno, James Petras, and Judith Stacey. This volume challenges the conservative notion that the fundamental problem plaguing America is dependancy on government and further cuts only lead to a cycle of recision.
  • Newly published articles by the leading experts in social and economic policy
  • Explores conservative social policy of the late twentieth century
  • Contains articles on welfare reform, health care, military spending and economic policy
Clarence Y. H. Lo is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is the author of Small Property versus Big Government: Social Origins of the Property Tax Revolt (University of California Press, 1990, revised edition 1995) and writes articles about theories of the state and conservative social movements.
Michael Schwartz is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Power Structure of American Business (Mizurchi and Schwartz, CUP, 1987), and The Social Construction of Industry (McGuire, Granovetter and Schwartz, CUP, 1996). He writes extensively in the areas of economic and political sociology, and social stratification.