American policy making : welfare as ritual / William M. Epstein
- Bib ID:
- 1532456
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Epstein, William M., 1944-
- Description:
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- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002
- xx, 247 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0742517322 (alkaline paper)
- 0742517330 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. Political Theory, Ideology, and Social Welfare
- Ch. 2. The Willow World of Virtue: Rationality and Effectiveness in the Personal Social Services
- Ch. 3. The American Ethos 1: Two Civil Religions
- Ch. 4. The American Ethos 2: America Speaks - The Polls and Policy Choice
- Ch. 5. The American Ethos 3: Social Welfare Services as Rituals of the Civil Religion
- Ch. 6. Two Romances: The Enlightenment and the Anti-Enlightenment
- Ch. 7. Science, Limited Science, and Scientism
- Conclusion: Hiding from the Jacobins.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2002
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