102 research outputs found
Review of \u3ci\u3eTheories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly\u3c/i\u3e, by Ben Fine
Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America\u3c/i\u3e, by Felicia Kornbluh
Review of \u3ci\u3eWhat Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality\u3c/i\u3e, by Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons
Revisionist History and the Contradictions of the Neoliberal Welfare State
Reviewing: FELICE BATLAN, WOMEN AND JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: A HISTORY OF LEGAL AID, 1863-1945 (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 2015); EVA BERTRAM, THE WORKFARE STATE: PUBLIC ASSISTANCE POLITICS FROM THE NEW DEAL TO THE NEW DEMOCRATS (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS 2015)
Review of \u3ci\u3eWhy Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy\u3c/i\u3e, by Martin Gilens
Review of \u3ci\u3eBacklash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present\u3c/i\u3e, by Ellen Reese
Review of \u3ci\u3eBacklash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present\u3c/i\u3e, by Ellen Reese
Calling Out the Persistence of Racism
In this issue New Political Science begins a new tradition, printing an extended review essay of the book that received the Michael Harrington Book Award at the most recent American Political Science Association Meeting. The Michael Harrington Award is given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarships can be used in the struggle for a better world. In 2011, the award went to Michelle Alexander for her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Color-Blindness. Sanford Schram, a member of the award committee, has contributed the below review
Review of \u3ci\u3eWelfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics\u3c/i\u3e, edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger
Review of \u3ci\u3eThe Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America\u3c/i\u3e, by Felicia Kornbluh
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