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Zusatztext "John F. Cogan handles the historical details of myriad social programs with considerable competence...This book covers subjects missing from the historical literature and generalizes across cases in useful ways. It will surely aid historians as they write about the modern welfare state."––Edward D. Berkowitz, Journal of American History Informationen zum Autor John F. Cogan is the Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a faculty member in Stanford University's Public Policy Program. Klappentext John F. Cogan is the Leonard and Shirley Ely Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a faculty member in Stanford University's Public Policy Program. Zusammenfassung This book traces the evolution of U.S. federal entitlement programs from the Revolutionary War to modern times to identify and understand the common economic and political forces that have caused their nearly continuous growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Creating Legislative Precedents: Revolutionary War Pensions 3. An Experiment with Government Trust Funds: Navy Pensions 4. The First Great Entitlement: Civil War Pensions 5. Repeating Past Mistakes: World War I Veterans' Benefits 6. Retrenchment: Roosevelt and the Veterans 7. The Birth of the Modern Entitlement State 8. The Consequences of Social Security Surpluses 9. A New Kind of Entitlement: The GI Bill 10. Setting the Postwar Entitlement Agenda: 1946-1950 11. 1951-1964: Establishing Social Insurance Dominance 12. The Great Turn in Welfare Policy: 1951-1964 13. The First Great Society 14. A Legal Right to Welfare 15. The Second Great Society 16. First Inklings of Fiscal Limits: 1975-1980 17. A Temporary Slowdown: 1981-1989 18. Recognition and Denial: 1989-2014 19. A Challenge Unlike Any Other in U.S. History
