"Creating the Welfare State" investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, this important volume employs interdisciplinary techniques to demonstrate how politics, economics, law, and social theory merged over the course of a century of policy formulation and implementation. The authors also draw upon previously unconsulted sources from government warehouses and archives to analyze the operation of early federal social welfare programs such as...
"Creating the Welfare State" investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern...
-Businessmen are politicians in America, - writes Kim McQuaid, -and politicians are businessmen.- Today, in areas as diverse as home mortgages, high technology, and Smart Bombs, the private and public sectors are working together to perform tasks that each is unable to do alone. In Uneasy Partners McQuaid surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present.
Government needs business, McQuaid explains, to make and implement key economic and business-related decisions. Business needs government to gain...
-Businessmen are politicians in America, - writes Kim McQuaid, -and politicians are businessmen.- Today, in areas as diverse as home mortgages, hig...
