Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States

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Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States Margaret answer this question with two related elements: the power of ideas in policy as a straightforward outcome of public preferences, she shows how ideas frame problems and how interests from around possibilities created by the interplay of ideas and politics.

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"Politics and Jobs establishes a new landmark in the study of economic and social policies in the United States. Weir's insightful and analytically powerful book will be widely read and cited for years."William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago

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Margaret Weir is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. With Ira Katznelson, she is the coauthor of Schooling for All: Class, Race and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (Basic Books/University of California).