Welfare for the wealthy : parties, social spending, and inequality in the United States /

How does political party control determine changes to social policy, and by extension, influence inequality in America? Conventional theories show that Democratic control of the federal government produces more social expenditures and less inequality. Welfare for the Wealthy re-examines this relatio...

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Main Author: Faricy, Christopher G., 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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505 8 |a 1. The politics of social policy in America -- 2. The partisan politics of the divided U.S. social welfare state -- 3. Political parties and public social spending: testing the conventional wisdom -- 4. Government subsidies and the private American social system: the special case of tax expenditures -- 5. A Republican welfare state? -- 6. The modality of social spending and income inequality in America -- 7. The implications of the divided American welfare state. 
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