Welfare for the Wealthy - Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Faricy is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, New York. His research has won a number of national awards including the American Political Science Association's 2012 Harold D. Lasswell Award and the Midwestern Political Science Association's 2010 Pi Sigma Alpha Award. His research has appeared in various journals including the Journal of Politics and Political Behavior and has been financed by the Russell Sage Foundation. His research has also been written about in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and Mother Jones. Klappentext This book examines how political party power influences public spending and private subsidies, and how these changes affect inequality. Zusammenfassung Welfare for the Wealthy examines how political party power influences both public spending and private subsidies and how! in turn! these changes affect inequality. Christopher G. Faricy finds that both Democrats and Republicans have increased federal social spending! but differ in how they spend federal money! and which socioeconomic groups benefit. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The politics of social policy in America; 2. The partisan politics of the divided US 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.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher G Faricy, Christopher G. Faricy, Christopher G. (Syracuse University Faricy, Faricy Christopher G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107101012
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10101-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Political structure & processes, Social welfare & social services, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Social welfare and social services, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Political structure and processes, Public finance and taxation, Social discrimination and social justice