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"Durant l'été 1961, Newburgh, petite ville de l'État de New York, décide de restreindre drastiquement les aides versées aux pauvres. Dans le collimateur de ses élus, les Africains-Américains, accusés d'être des "tricheurs" et des "paresseux" venus depuis le sud du pays dans le seul but de toucher les prestations sociales. La décision fait scandale dans l'Amérique prospère et libérale des années Kennedy. Elle devient vite une affaire nationale dont s'emparent la presse, les élus locaux et fédéraux, les tenants d'un conservatisme en pleine construction, les associations pour les droits civiques. D'une plume alerte, Tamara Boussac fait revivre cet épisode méconnu de l'histoire récente des États-Unis. L'affaire de Newburgh n'annonce pas seulement le démantèlement progressif de l'État providence hérité du New Deal, elle sert aussi de rampe de lancement à un nouveau conservatisme, qui s'incarnera dans le reaganisme et fera florès jusqu'en Europe."--Page 4 of cover.

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Bringing together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars, A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfaredraws upon past and contemporary research methods used to study citizens' attitudes to welfare. It highlights the rapidly growing research potential within the field, examining both new and understudied social policies to map out a comprehensive agenda for future research. This essential Research Agenda offers crucial suggestions to broaden the scope of research in the field and expand our knowledge of public attitudes to welfare. Chapters examine support for new social welfare policies such as active labour market policies, Universal Basic Income, and Social Europe, as well as investigating support among understudied subgroups in the population and over the life course. It ultimately emphasizes the importance of applying different analytical and methodological perspectives in order to understand public attitudes to welfare more thoroughly. Employing a diverse range of data and methods, this informative Research Agenda will benefit scholars of sociology, social policy, political science, and economics seeking to gain insight on public attitudes to welfare and welfare states. It will also be useful to social policy professionals and officials endeavouring to reflect on the progress of research within the field.

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An argument that protectionism is a threat to economic prosperity. The case for free trade is presented along with the errors of protectionist thinkers. Immigration policy, foreign aid, regionalism, development policy and issues of national competitiveness as they relate to open markets between countries are also discussed.

Protectionism. --- Welfare state. --- International trade.

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"The Intimate State tells the story of how intimate relationships acquired unprecedented political and cultural resonance in Britain during the heady and transformative decades following WWII. Long before late-1960s feminists famously proclaimed "the personal is political," private family life was given profound political importance in a range of quarters, by many of Britain's most prominent psychiatrists, psychologists, social scientists, politicians, and social reformers. During the early decades of the Cold War, a new generation of self-styled relationship experts made the compelling case that emotional "health" was forged within the intimate space of the loving, nuclear family and was the bedrock for responsible democratic citizenship. This new priority given to emotional relationships transformed the scope of politics in Britain as the emerging welfare state assumed responsibility for protecting citizens' emotional wellbeing. An unintended consequence of this new, intimately emotional vision of modern political order was the mobilization of many groups either oppressed by or excluded from the heteronormative family-centered post-WWII intimacy ideal. Movements advocating the rights of women, queer people, and adolescents seeking a greater range of political rights focused on the serious emotional harms caused by being either excessively trapped within or excluded from the idealized nuclear family. By the 1970s, activists' efforts to claim a more inclusive model of intimacy, which provided space for transformed gender roles, non-monogamous romance, non-traditional families, and friendship-based political activism, became the basis for both socio-political reform and new models of healthy emotional life. This book traces, on the one hand, the emergence of a new vision of emotion-centered-social modernity in Britain after 1945, and on the other, the exclusions and resistance that repeatedly threatened to upend it"--

Interpersonal relations --- Interpersonal relations --- Welfare state --- Political aspects

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"This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy. The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State aims to offer a definitive analysis of the famous document, so influential in the founding of the National Health Service and other bodies and which still resonates in current debates about "getting back to Beveridge" and a "Beveridge for the 21st Century". It is based on extensive research into the papers of the Beveridge Committee, official Government archives and the papers of contemporary politicians and groups. Published to coincide with the Report's 80th anniversary, the book is treated as a case study in policy formulation during the 1940s. Key features of the book include The first systematic review and assessment of the work of the Beveridge committee and the evidence submitted to it Detailed analysis of the enthusiastic reception of the Report and the government's lukewarm attitude A full survey of the detailed planning for welfare reform and Beveridge's role when excluded from it An assessment of the influence of Beveridge upon the creation of the Welfare State by Attlee's Labour Government This important text would be of interest to scholars of 20th-century Great Britain, social history, political history and contemporary politics and comparative health and education systems"--

Welfare state --- History. --- Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, Baron, --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Social policy. --- Beveridge report.