The American Welfare System: Origins, Structure, and Effects
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The American Welfare System: Origins, Structure, and Effects
By (Author) Howard Gensler
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th March 1996
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and ethical issues
Social and cultural history
Political structure and processes
Political economy
361.973
Physical Properties
Hardback
312
Description
This important and timely work provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the American welfare system from an economic, legal, historical, and policy perspective. This volume reviews the historical origins of the American welfare system, the Constitutional development of welfare law and entitlements, and the economic structure and effects of welfare based on a large national data set covering the period 1979 through 1990. The book includes policy analyses and recommendations for reform. The scope of coverage and currency of this volume makes it an indispensable reference work for policymakers, students, scholars, and analysts of welfare.
Author Bio
HOWARD GENSLER is presently a lecturer in Accounting at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds degrees from the University of California at Irvine and Berkeley.
