Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role

Social Security: Beyond the Rhetoric of Crisis Edited by Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw

What are the possibilities and prospects for Social Security over the decades ahead? The essays in this interdisciplinary study explore what social insurance has meant historically, socially, economically, politically, and legally in...

Privatization and the Welfare State Edited by Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn

Looking at the theory and practice of privatization in its broadest manifestations, the contributors to this volume scrutinize the combination of public and private initiatives that makes up the present U.S. social sector. As they...

The Politics of Social Policy in the United States Edited by Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff, and Theda Skocpol

This volume places the welfare debates of the 1980s in the context of past patterns of U.S. policy, such as the Social Security Act of 1935, the failure of efforts in the 1940s to extend national social benefits and economic planning...

Democracy and the Welfare State Edited by Amy Gutmann

The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a...