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Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States
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? To answer this question, Margaret Weir highlights two related elements: the power of ideas in policymaking and the politics of interest formation.
Book Details
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publish Date: Feb 14th, 1993
- Pages: 262
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.22in - 6.09in - 0.65in - 0.82lb
- EAN: 9780691024929
- Categories: • Public Policy - Economic Policy• Public Policy - Social Policy• American Government - General
About the Author
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).
Praise for this book
"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