Welfare in America
William Plowden, 11 July 1991
American Social Welfare Policy: A Structural Approach
by Howard Karger and David Stoesz.
Longman, 371 pp., £18.95, November 1990,0 8013 0193 9 Show More
by Howard Karger and David Stoesz.
Longman, 371 pp., £18.95, November 1990,
America’s Misunderstood Welfare State
by Theodore Marmor, Jerry Mashaw and Philip Harvey.
Basic Books, 268 pp., $22.95, October 1990,9780465001224 Show More
by Theodore Marmor, Jerry Mashaw and Philip Harvey.
Basic Books, 268 pp., $22.95, October 1990,
“... Like other beliefs and forms of behaviour to be met with in this country in the course of the present century, much of the Thatcherite approach to social policy was imported from the United States. Joe Rogaly commented recently that if under Mrs Thatcher 10 Downing Street was attached ‘by threads of steel’ to right-wing think tanks such as the Centre for Policy Studies, the latter were attached ‘by underwater cable’ to their counterparts in New York and Washington ... ”
