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It Is A Commonplace That The United States Lagged Behind The Countries Of Western Europe In Developing Modern Social Policies. But, As Theda Skocpol Shows In This Startlingly New Historical Analysis, The United States Actually Pioneered Generous Social Spending For Many Of Its Elderly, Disabled, And Dependent Citizens. During The Late Nineteenth Century, Competitive Party Politics In American Democracy Led To The Rapid Expansion Of Benefits For Union Civil War Veterans And Their Families. Some Americans Hoped To Expand Veterans' Benefits Into Pensions For All Of The Needy Elderly And Social Insurance For Workingmen And Their Families. But Such Hopes Went Against The Logic Of Political Reform In The Progressive Era. Generous Social Spending Faded Along With The Civil War Generation.^ Instead, The Nation Nearly Became A Unique Maternalist Welfare State As The Federal Government And More Than Forty States Enacted Social Spending, Labor Regulations, And Health Education Programs To Assist American Mothers And Children. Remarkably, As Skocpol Shows, Many Of These Policies Were Enacted Even Before American Women Were Granted The Right To Vote. Banned From Electoral Politics, They Turned

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Author

Theda Skocpol

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674043725

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Science, History

Rating

3.76 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13