New Directions in Policy History
Published on 19. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-0-271-02719-7 (ISBN)
Description
Emerging as a distinct subfield in the 1970s, policy history has come to earn a respected place in interdisciplinary scholarship today. In this volume, introduced by an essay that reviews the development of policy history and the intellectual and professional challenges it has faced, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists offers ideas for how policy history might evolve and continue to grow in the years ahead.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 Charts
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-271-02719-7 (9780271027197)
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Person
Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History at Boston University.
Content
Contents
Introduction: New Directions in Policy History, Julian E. Zelizer
1. Beyond Weak and Strong: Rethinking the State in Comparative Policy History, Peter Baldwin
2. The Study of Policy Development, Paul Pierson
3. Ideology and Public Policy: Antistatism in American Welfare State Transformation, Jill Quadagno and Debra Street
4. On the Importance of Naming: Gender, Race, and the Writing of Policy History, Eileen Boris
5. Diplomatic History and Policy History: Finding Common Ground, Robert J. McMahon
6. "Saint George and the Dragon": Courts and the Development of the Administrative State in Twentieth-Century America, Reuel Schiller
7. Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History, Jacob S. Hacker
Introduction: New Directions in Policy History, Julian E. Zelizer
1. Beyond Weak and Strong: Rethinking the State in Comparative Policy History, Peter Baldwin
2. The Study of Policy Development, Paul Pierson
3. Ideology and Public Policy: Antistatism in American Welfare State Transformation, Jill Quadagno and Debra Street
4. On the Importance of Naming: Gender, Race, and the Writing of Policy History, Eileen Boris
5. Diplomatic History and Policy History: Finding Common Ground, Robert J. McMahon
6. "Saint George and the Dragon": Courts and the Development of the Administrative State in Twentieth-Century America, Reuel Schiller
7. Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History, Jacob S. Hacker