"This book makes a major contribution to thinking about the connections between political culture and the welfare state in the United States. It addresses issues with a broad scope that makes its concerns relevant to a wide audience."--Margaret Weir, Harvard University ""Gaining Ground" is a significant contribution to the field for two reasons. First, the argument itself is important and a force for good; it might actually have an impact on social welfare policies at a time when such policies are badly in need of ...
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"This book makes a major contribution to thinking about the connections between political culture and the welfare state in the United States. It addresses issues with a broad scope that makes its concerns relevant to a wide audience."--Margaret Weir, Harvard University ""Gaining Ground" is a significant contribution to the field for two reasons. First, the argument itself is important and a force for good; it might actually have an impact on social welfare policies at a time when such policies are badly in need of reformulation. Second, the smooth and mutually-enriching flow among normative, theoretical and empirical analyses provides an excellent example of the kind of policy analysis that scholars ought to be undertaking."--Jennifer Hochschild, Princeton University
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