Welfare Discipline: Discourse, Governance, and Globalization
Aug 2008 · Temple University Press
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For the past decade, political scientist Sanford Schram has led the academic effort to understand how Americans and their political officials talk about poverty and welfare and what impact that discourse has on policy and on the global society.
In "Welfare Discipline," Schram argues that it is time to take stock of the new forms of welfare and to develop even better methods to understand them. He argues for a more contextualized approach to examining welfare policy, from the use of the idea of globalization to justify cutbacks, to the increasing employment of U.S. policy discourse overseas, to the development of asset-based approaches to helping the poor.
Stressing the importance of understanding the ways we talk about welfare, how we study it, and, critically, what we do "not "discuss and why, Schram offers recommendations for making welfare policy both just and effective.
In "Welfare Discipline," Schram argues that it is time to take stock of the new forms of welfare and to develop even better methods to understand them. He argues for a more contextualized approach to examining welfare policy, from the use of the idea of globalization to justify cutbacks, to the increasing employment of U.S. policy discourse overseas, to the development of asset-based approaches to helping the poor.
Stressing the importance of understanding the ways we talk about welfare, how we study it, and, critically, what we do "not "discuss and why, Schram offers recommendations for making welfare policy both just and effective.
For the past decade, political scientist Sanford Schram has led the academic effort to understand how Americans and their political officials talk about poverty and welfare and what impact that discourse has on policy and on the global society.
In "Welfare Discipline," Schram argues that it is t...
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Sanford F. Schram is Visiting Professor and the Director of the Center on Ethnicities, Communities, and Social Policy at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of three books, including Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty, which won the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington Award.
Sanford F. Schram is Visiting Professor and the Director of the Center on Ethnicities, Communities, and Social Policy at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of three books, including Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty, which won the American Politica...
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