Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social PolicyCambridge University Press, 21 kwi 2003 - 244 Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy offers a pathbreaking account of the pivotal role played by entitlement policies during the first hundred years of the United States' existence. Contrary to the story of developmental delay contained in the standard historiography, Laura Jensen reveals that national social policies not only existed in early America, but also were a major instrument by which the fledgling US government built itself and the new nation. From 1776 on, Federal pensions and land entitlements figured prominently in the growth and empowerment of a unique American state, the consolidation and expansion of the country, and the political incorporation of a diverse citizenry. The book provides a rich account of how governing institutions, public expectations, ideas about law and legality, political necessity and public policy gave shape to definitions of need, worth, and eligibility in late eighteenth and nineteenth century America. |
Spis treści
Entitlements in Law and History | 1 |
Rethinking the American State and American Governance | 5 |
Rethinking Entitlements | 13 |
Whats in a Name? | 16 |
Entidements as a Policy Device | 25 |
Entitlements as Rights at Work | 31 |
Entitlements and American Political Development | 40 |
Pensions for Revolutionary Patriots | 44 |
The Public Lands and Public Welfare | 123 |
Public Lands and Early Nation Building 17891811 | 136 |
The Public Domain and Land Entitlements 18111830 | 150 |
Public Land Policy and Sectionalism | 164 |
Expanding a Nation Dissolving a Union | 171 |
Causal Stories and Continental Ambitions | 177 |
Movement Toward Universalism 18471862 | 186 |
The Civil War Its Union Veterans and Selective Entitlement | 205 |
Disability Officers and Widows Pensions of the Revolutionary War Period | 48 |
Veterans Benefits and Early Nation Building | 63 |
Revolutionary Policies | 80 |
The Logic of Expansion | 88 |
Revolutionary Pensions and Sectional Politics | 110 |
Entitlements and the Constitution of the American Nation | 222 |
The Consequences of Policy Choice | 231 |
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