Who Killed Civil Society? - The Rise of the Social Service State and Decline of the Bourgeois

Vexing social issues such as the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, and chronic unemployment are the target of social programs Americans fund with their tax dollars. Husock argues that over the past century, the U.S. has lost sight of the more powerful antidote to these problems: positive social norms.

About the author

Howard Husock is vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute, where he is also a contributing editor to City Journal. He is the author of America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake (Ivan R. Dee, 2003), and Philanthropy Under Fire (Encounter Books, 2013). He is a longtime print and television journalist and documentary filmmaker, whose work for WGBH, Boston won three Emmy Awards. In 1987–2006 he served as director of case studies in public policy and management at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was also an adjunct lecturer in public management and a fellow at the Hauser Center on Civil Society. He was a member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (2013–18).

Summary

Vexing social issues such as the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, and chronic unemployment are the target of social programs Americans fund with their tax dollars. Husock argues that over the past century, the U.S. has lost sight of the more powerful antidote to these problems: positive social norms.

Product details

• Authors: Howard A Husock, Howard A. Husock
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781641770583
• ISBN: 978-1-64177-058-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social Work, Politics & government, Public Administration, Central government policies, Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy