Lindsey Cormack

Congress and U.S. Veterans (eBook, PDF)

From the GI Bill to the VA Crisis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a compelling look at veterans' policy, this book describes why the Republican party is considered the party for veterans despite the fact that Congressional Democrats are responsible for a greater number of policy initiatives.

The United States is home to 21 million veterans, and Veterans' Affairs is the second-largest federal department, with a budget exceeding $119 billion. Many veterans, however, remain underserved. Republicans are seen as veterans' champions, and they send the majority of Congressional constituent communications on veterans' issues, yet they are lead sponsors on only 37 percent of bills considered by the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. What accounts for this discrepancy? Drawing on thousands of e-newsletters sent from Congress to constituents, Congress and U.S. Veterans: From the GI Bill to the VA Crisis argues that the distribution of veterans across districts and the Republican Party is based on government spending, which pulls Republican legislators in opposite directions.

This eye-opening book offers a history of veterans' programs, highlights legislative leaders and the most pressing policy areas for reform, identifies the issues most often discussed by members of Congress from each party, points out which congresspeople have acted on veterans' issues and which have not, and offers an analysis of veteran population distribution and legislative policy preferences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440858376
• Artikelnr.: 68251299

Autorenporträt

Lindsey Cormack is assistant professor of political science and director of the Diplomacy Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. She maintains the database of official Congress-to-constituent e-newsletters at www.dcinbox.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 No Golden Era: History and
Challenges of the Veterans Administration Chapter 2 Connections among
Veteran Populations, Legislators, and Groups Chapter 3 Public Opinion:
Veterans Policy and Veterans' Preferences Chapter 4 Legwork: Legislative
Leaders on Veterans' Policy Chapter 5 A Theory of Lip Service versus
Legwork Chapter 6 Lip Service: Legislator Communications about Veterans
Chapter 7 Veterans' Education Policy: The Post-9/11 GI Bill Chapter 8
Veterans' Health Care and the VA Scandal Chapter 9 Conclusions and
Directions for the Future of Veterans' Politics and Policies Notes
Bibliography Index