Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy write by Laura Jensen. This book was released on 2003-04-21. Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy offers a pathbreaking account of the pivotal role played by entitlement policies during the first hundred years of the United States' existence. Contrary to the story of developmental delay contained in the standard historiography, Laura Jensen reveals that national social policies not only existed in early America, but also were a major instrument by which the fledgling US government built itself and the new nation. From 1776 on, Federal pensions and land entitlements figured prominently in the growth and empowerment of a unique American state, the consolidation and expansion of the country, and the political incorporation of a diverse citizenry. The book provides a rich account of how governing institutions, public expectations, ideas about law and legality, political necessity and public policy gave shape to definitions of need, worth, and eligibility in late eighteenth and nineteenth century America.
Deserving and Entitled
Deserving and Entitled - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deserving and Entitled write by Anne L. Schneider. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Deserving and Entitled available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public policy in the United States is marked by a contradiction between the American ideal of equality and the reality of an underclass of marginalized and disadvantaged people who are widely viewed as undeserving and incapable. Deserving and Entitled provides a close inspection of many different policy arenas, showing how the use of power and the manipulation of images have made it appear both natural and appropriate that some target populations benefit from policy, while others do not. These social constructions of deservedness and entitlement, unless challenged, become amplified over time and institutionalized into permanent lines of social, economic, and political cleavage. The contributors here express concern that too often public policy sends messages harmful to democracy and contributes significantly to the pattern of uneven political participation in the United States.
Handbook of Constructionist Research
Handbook of Constructionist Research - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Constructionist Research write by James A. Holstein. This book was released on 2013-10-21. Handbook of Constructionist Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Constructionism has become one of the most popular research approaches in the social sciences. But until now, little attention has been given to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of the constructionist stance, and the remarkable diversity within the field. This cutting-edge handbook brings together a dazzling array of scholars to review the foundations of constructionist research, how it is put into practice in multiple disciplines, and where it may be headed in the future. The volume critically examines the analytic frameworks, strategies of inquiry, and methodological choices that together form the mosaic of contemporary constructionism, making it an authoritative reference for anyone interested in conducting research in a constructionist vein.
Ethics in Public Management
Ethics in Public Management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethics in Public Management write by H George Frederickson. This book was released on 2016-07-22. Ethics in Public Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The groundbreaking "Ethics in Public Administration" set the agenda for a decade's worth of research in the theory and practice of ethics in the public sector. This long-awaited follow-up volume represents the state of the art in research on administrative ethics. It features all new contributions by many of the leading figures in the field, and addresses both the managerial and individual/moral dimensions of ethical behavior as well as new challenges to administrative ethics posed by globalization. A detailed introduction, opening passage, and conclusion lend context to each of the book's four main sections. "Ethics in Public Management" is must reading for any graduate level course in public sector ethics.
The Political Economy of the American Frontier
The Political Economy of the American Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Economy of the American Frontier write by Ilia Murtazashvili. This book was released on 2013-09-16. The Political Economy of the American Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Its scope is interdisciplinary, integrating insights from political science, economics, law and history. This book shows how claim clubs - informal governments established by squatters in each of the major frontier sectors of agriculture, mining, logging and ranching - substituted for the state as a source of private property institutions and how they changed the course of who received a legal title, and for what price, throughout the nineteenth century. Unlike existing analytical studies of the frontier that emphasize one or two sectors, this book considers all major sectors, as well as the relationship between informal and formal property institutions, while also proposing a novel theory of emergence and change in property institutions that provides a framework to interpret the complicated history of land laws in the United States.
