Christopher G. Faricy

Welfare for the Wealthy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how political party power influences public spending and private subsidies, and how these changes affect inequality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781107101012
• ISBN-10: 1107101018
• Artikelnr.: 42284217

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.