States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies

Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

340 Seiten

2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-65407-2 (ISBN)

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From the 1850s to the 1920s, laws regulating the industrial labor process, pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and measures to educate and ensure the welfare of children were enacted in many industrializing capitalist nations. This same period saw the development of modern social sciences. The eight essays collected here examine the reciprocal influence of social policy and academic research in comparative context, ranging across policy areas and encompassing developments in Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia, and Japan. Introduced by the editors, the essays include Part I on the emergence of modern social knowledge by Ira Katznelson, Anson Rabinbach, and Bjorn Wittrock and Peter Wagner; Part II on reformist social scientists and public policymaking by Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Ronan Van Rossem, Libby Schweber, and John R. Sutton; Part III on state managers and the uses of social knowledge by Stein Kuhnle and Sheldon Garon, and a conclusion by Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol. Originally published in 1995.
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PrefaceIntroduction31Knowledge about What? Policy Intellectuals and the New Liberalism172Social Knowledge, Social Risk, and the Politics of Industrial Accidents in Germany and France483Social Science and the Building of the Early Welfare State: Toward a Comparison of Statist and Non-Statist Western Societies904The Verein fur Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge1175Progressive Reformers, Unemployment, and the Transformation of Social Inquiry in Britain and the United States, 1880s-1920s1636Social Knowledge and the Generation of Child Welfare Policy in the United States and Canada2017International Modeling, States, and Statistics: Scandinavians Social Security Solutions in the 1890s2338Social Knowledge and the State in the Industrial Relations of Japan (1882-1940) and Great Britain (1870-1914)264Conclusion296Notes on the Contributors313Index317

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	652 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-691-65407-7 / 0691654077
ISBN-13	978-0-691-65407-2 / 9780691654072
Zustand	Neuware