How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State
By (Author) Andrea Louise Campbell
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
26th April 2005
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Age groups: the elderly
322.40846
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
369g
Description
Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why And does it matter for policy outcomes In this richly detailed and fluidly written book, Andrea Campbell argues that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Through a case study of senior citizens in the United States and their political activity around Social Security, she shows how highly participatory groups get their policy preferences fulfilled, and how public policy itself helps create political inequality.
Reviews
"This is a persuasively argued, well-researched, and nicely written work that makes a key contribution to our understanding of the politics of Social Security retirement insurance. Because of the singular importance of Social Security as a domestic federal program, ... Campbell's study fills a significant gap."--Gary Mucciaroni, Perspectives on Politics
Author Bio
Andrea Louise Campbell is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University from 2001-2003.
