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Disciplining the Poor
Joe Soss
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Description for Disciplining the Poor
Paperback. Lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. This book argues that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 45 line drawings, 1 map, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKS; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. The rise of paternalism has promoted a more directive and supervisory approach to managing the poor. This has intersected with a second development: the rise of neoliberalism as an organizing principle of governance. Neoliberals have redesigned state operations around market principles; to impose market discipline, core state functions ... Read more
"Disciplining the Poor" lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. The rise of paternalism has promoted a more directive and supervisory approach to managing the poor. This has intersected with a second development: the rise of neoliberalism as an organizing principle of governance. Neoliberals have redesigned state operations around market principles; to impose market discipline, core state functions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Chicago Studies in American Politics
Condition
New
Weight
612g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226768779
SKU
V9780226768779
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About Joe Soss
Joe Soss is the Cowles Professor for the Study of Public Service in the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Richard C. Fording is professor in and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama. Sanford F. Schram teaches social theory and policy in the Graduate School of Social Work ... Read more
Reviews for Disciplining the Poor
"Disciplining the Poor is a landmark book on the governance of poverty in the United States, the most important such work since Piven and Cloward's Regulating the Poor, written a generation ago, and an exemplar of multi-method social science research." (Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"