ISBN:
9780199993123
,
9780199993130
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 210 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
306.8740846
Keywords:
Aging parents / Care / United States
;
Families / United States
;
Social service / United States
;
Welfare state / United States
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
;
LAW / General Practice
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
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Altenpflege
;
Eltern
;
Familie
;
Wohlfahrtsstaat
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Wohlfahrtsstaat
;
Eltern
;
Familie
;
Altenpflege
Abstract:
"Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask 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? The answer, Sandra Levitsky 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 transcend existing ideological divisions in American social politics"--"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. Rather than asking why the American state, a known laggard in all matters involving social welfare, hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitl
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201) and index
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The Roots and Experience of Contemporary Caregiving -- The Transformation of Private Needs into Public Issues -- The Construction of Political Solutions to Unmet Long-Term Care Needs -- Communicating Grievances : Policy Feedback and the Deserving Citizen -- Communicating Grievances : Obstacles to Activism -- Caring for Our Own
