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Caring for Our Own
Sandra R. Levitsky
其他書名
Why There is No Political Demand for New American Social Welfare Rights
出版Oxford University Press, 2014
主題Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Later YearsFamily & Relationships / EldercareFamily & Relationships / Parenting / GeneralLaw / General PracticeMedical / Health Care DeliveryPolitical Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfarePolitical Science / Public Policy / Social PolicySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
ISBN01999931309780199993130
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=d3KVAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Aging populations and dramatic changes in health care provision, household structure, and women's labor force participation over the last half century have created what many observers have dubbed a "crisis in care": demand for care of the old and infirm is rapidly growing, while the supply of private care within the family is substantially contracting. And yet, despite the well-documented adverse effects of contemporary care dilemmas on the economic security of families, the physical and mental health of family care providers, the bottom line of businesses, and the financial health of existing social welfare programs, American families have demonstrated little inclination for translating their private care problems into political demands for social policy reform.Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than asking why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare needs as the basis for demands for new state entitlements? How do traditional beliefs in family responsibility for social welfare persist even in the face of well-documented unmet need? The answer, this book argues, lies in a better understanding of how individuals imagine solutions to the social welfare problems they confront and what prevents new understandings of social welfare provision from developing into political demand for alternative social arrangements. Caring for Our Own considers the powerful ways in which existing social policies shape the political imagination, reinforcing longstanding values about family responsibility, subverting grievances grounded in notions of social responsibility, and in some rare cases, constructing new models of social provision that would transcend existing ideological divisions in American social politics.