TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackin,Glenn David
TI  - The politics of social welfare in America
SN  - 9781107336704
AV  - HV95 .M254 2013eb
U1  - 361.60973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - United States
KW  - Poor
KW  - Government policy
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Pauvres
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Personnes handicapées
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Human Services
KW  - fast
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Sozialpolitik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Politique sociale
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Aporia of Practical Reason; Introduction: Rebeccas Story; Habermas's Known and Unknown Others; The Aporia of Practical Reason, or a Critique of the "Ethical Other"; The Political Other; 2 The Aporia of Social Rights; Introduction: A Democratic Indigestion?; "Please Don't Feed the Alligators"; "A Stew of Paradox"; (At) the Limits of Reflexivity; "Welfarizing" Politics; 3 Welfare Discourse as a Narrative of Political Founding; Introduction: "I Cant Believe I'm Losing to This Guy"; The Welfare System as a Gift; The Welfare System as a Threat; Aporia, Imposition, and Democracys Generative Powers4 Otherwise than Need; Introduction: The Tragedy of Welfare; From Need to Solidarity, or Rethinking the Role of Damage Imagery in Liberal Thought; Political and Ethical Disagreement, or the Problem with Consensus; The Welfare Rights Movement and the Staging of Political Conflict; 5 Needing Rights; Introduction: The Excessive Yes; Bringing the Constitution to the Poor?; Demanding Rights, Declaring Wrongs; Sovereignty as Invitation and Response, or Rereading Brennans "Tailoring Principle"; Attentiveness and the Conditions of Political Action
N2  - "The Politics of Social Welfare in America examines how politicians, theorists, and citizens discuss need, welfare, and disability with respect to theoretical and political projects. Glenn David Mackin argues that participants in these discussions often miss the way their perceptions of those in need shape their discourse. Professor Mackin also explores disability rights groups and welfare rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s to examine the ways that those designated as needy or incompetent often challenge these designations, thus making the issue of welfare an ongoing conflict over who counts as competent and generating new ways of understanding democracy and equality"--
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