Facing off on Social Policy: Can the Right and Left Find Middle Ground?

Social Service Review

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 171-199

  Gibson, Cynthia M ^a  

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EID: 0347170935     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/604246     Document Type: Article

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3. Christopher Jencks, Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992).
4. Michael Harrington, The Other America (New York: MacMillan, 1962); John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958); Michael Katz, The Undeserving Poor (New York: Pantheon, 1989), p. 81.
5. Michael Harrington, The Other America (New York: MacMillan, 1962); John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958); Michael Katz, The Undeserving Poor (New York: Pantheon, 1989), p. 81.
6. Michael Harrington, The Other America (New York: MacMillan, 1962); John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958); Michael Katz, The Undeserving Poor (New York: Pantheon, 1989), p. 81.
7. Morris and Hansan (n. 2 above).
8. Katz (n. 4 above).
9. Ibid., p. 138.
10. George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic, 1981); Charles Murray, Losing Ground (New York: Basic, 1984).
11. George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic, 1981); Charles Murray, Losing Ground (New York: Basic, 1984).
12. Katz (n. 4 above), p. 139.
13. George Will, "Toasts and Remarks Delivered at a Dinner in Honor of Irving Kristol on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (remarks prepared for the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., January 21, 1995).
14. Mark Gerson, The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars (Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1996), p. 20.
15. Ibid., pp. 9-10.
16. Charles Murray, Losing Ground, 2d ed. (New York: Basic, 1994).
17. Ibid., pp. 24-25.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. xviii.
20. Charles Murray, "Does Welfare Bring More Babies?" Public Interest 114 (1994): 17-31.
21. Murray, Losing Ground (n. 13 above), p. xx.
22. Ibid., p. xvii.
23. Ibid., p. xvi.
24. Katz (n. 4 above), p. 157; Lawrence Mead, Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship (New York: Free Press, 1986).
25. Katz (n. 4 above), p. 157; Lawrence Mead, Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship (New York: Free Press, 1986).
26. Lawrence Mead, "The New Politics of the New Poverty," Public Interest 103 (Spring 1991): 3-20.
27. Ibid., p. 7.
28. Marvin Olasky, The Tragedy of American Compassion (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1992).
29. Ibid., p. 226.
30. Charles Murray, "The British Underclass," Public Interest 99 (Spring 1990): 4-28; Mead, "The New Politics of the New Poverty" (n. 22 above), p. 4.
31. Charles Murray, "The British Underclass," Public Interest 99 (Spring 1990): 4-28; Mead, "The New Politics of the New Poverty" (n. 22 above), p. 4.
32. Joel Schwartz, "The Moral Environment of the Poor," Public Interest 103 (Spring 1991): 21-37.
33. Elijah Anderson, "The Story of John Turner," Public Interest 108 (Summer 1992): 3-34. Conservatives' interpretation of "underclass" differs from William Julius Wilson's original usage. Wilson accepts the conservative thesis that antisocial and destructive behavior have increased in poor black neighborhoods, but he views these changes as an offshoot of economic factors, not behavior. Wilson sees the term not as a pejorative but as a way to champion broader discourse about American poverty. See William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
34. Elijah Anderson, "The Story of John Turner," Public Interest 108 (Summer 1992): 3-34. Conservatives' interpretation of "underclass" differs from William Julius Wilson's original usage. Wilson accepts the conservative thesis that antisocial and destructive behavior have increased in poor black neighborhoods, but he views these changes as an offshoot of economic factors, not behavior. Wilson sees the term not as a pejorative but as a way to champion broader discourse about American poverty. See William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
35. Nathan Glazer, "Lessons of New York City," Public Interest 104 (Summer 1991): 37-49.
36. Mead, "The New Politics of the New Poverty" (n. 22 above), p. 8.
37. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965).
38. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "How the Great Society Destroyed the American Family," Public Interest 108 (Summer 1992): 53-64.
39. Ibid.
40. Ronald Mincy, "The Underclass: Concept, Controversy, and Evidence," in Confronting Poverty, ed. Sheldon Danziger, Gary Sandefur, and Daniel Weinberg (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 109-46.
41. Katz (n. 4 above).
42. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "Defining Deviancy Down," American Scholar 62, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 17-30.
43. Gertrude Himmelfarb, "A De-moralized Society: The British/American Experience," Public Interest 114 (1994): 57-80.
44. Mead, "The New Politics of the New Poverty" (n. 22 above), p. 10.
45. Richard Gill, "For the Sake of the Children," Public Interest 108 (Summer 1992): 81-96.
46. David Popenoe, "Family Decline in the Swedish Welfare State," Public Interest 102 (Winter 1991): 65-77.
47. Olasky (n. 24 above).
48. Amitai Etzioni, "Restoring Our Moral Voice," Public Interest 114 (1994): 107-13.
49. Katz (n. 4 above), p. 139.
50. Peter Drucker, "The Post-Capitalist World," Public Interest 109 (Fall 1992): 89-100.
51. Gerson (n. 11 above), p. 349.
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53. "On Target," Newsweek (November 18, 1996): 36-54.
54. Gerson (n. 11 above), p. 19.
55. Murray, Losing Ground (n. 13 above), p. 53.
56. Katz (n. 4 above).
57. Jencks (n. 3 above), p. 79.
58. Evelyn Brodkin, "The War against Welfare," Dissent 42 (Spring 1995): 210-20.
59. Sheldon Danziger, Gary Sandefur, and Daniel Weinberg, "Introduction," in Danziger, Sandefur, and Weinberg, eds. (n. 34 above), pp. 1-17.
60. Ibid.; Sheldon Danziger and Sandra Danziger, "Child Poverty and Public Policy: Toward a Comprehensive Antipoverty Agenda," Daedalus 122 (Winter 1993): 57-84.
61. Ibid.; Sheldon Danziger and Sandra Danziger, "Child Poverty and Public Policy: Toward a Comprehensive Antipoverty Agenda," Daedalus 122 (Winter 1993): 57-84.
62. Katz (n. 4 above).
63. Brodkin (n. 52 above).
64. Katz (n. 4 above), p. 143.
65. Sheldon Danziger and Daniel Weinberg, "The Historical Record: Trends in Family Income, Inequality, and Poverty," in Danziger, Sandefur, and Weinberg, eds. (n. 34 above), pp. 18-50.
66. Danziger and Danziger (n. 54 above).
67. Brodkin (n. 52 above).
68. Morris and Hansan (n. 2 above).
69. Danziger and Danziger (n. 54 above).
70. Robert Kuttner, The Economic Illusion: False Choice between Prosperity and Social Justice (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984).
71. Katz (n. 4 above), p. 175.
72. Brodkin (n. 52 above), p. 217.
73. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University, "National Survey of Public Knowledge of Welfare Reform and the Federal Budget" (Kaiser Family Foundation, Menlo Park, Calif., January 1995).
74. Brodkin (n. 52 above).
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76. William Kornblum, "Who Is the Underclass?" Dissent 38 (Spring 1991): 202-11; Jencks (n. 3 above).
77. William Kornblum, "Who Is the Underclass?" Dissent 38 (Spring 1991): 202-11; Jencks (n. 3 above).
78. Brodkin (n. 52 above).
79. Jencks and Edin (n. 68 above).
80. Robert Kuttner, "Notes from the Underground: Clashing Theories about the Underclass," Dissent (Spring 1991): 212-17.
81. Jencks and Edin (n. 68 above).
82. Morris and Hansan (n. 2 above).
83. Jencks and Edin (n. 68 above), pp. 46-47.
84. David Kallick, "A Post-Liberal Approach to Welfare," Social Policy 25 (Spring 1995): 2-7.
85. Rebecca Blank, "The Employment Strategy: Public Policy to Increase Work and Earnings," in Danziger, Sandefur, and Weinburg, eds. (n. 34 above), pp. 168-204.
86. Institute for Women's Policy Research, "Welfare to Work: The Job Opportunities of AFDC Recipients" (Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1996).
87. Eliza Newlin Carney, "Taking Over," National Journal (June 10, 1995): 1382-87.
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90. Jencks and Edin (n. 68 above), p. 49.
91. Geoffrey Garin, Guy Molyneux, and Linda DiVall, "Public Attitudes toward Welfare Reform," Social Policy 25 (Winter 1994): 44-49.
92. Roger Rosenblatt, "The Triumph of Liberalism," New York Times Magazine (January 14, 1996), pp. 33-35.
93. Robin Toner, "Coming Home from the Revolution," New York Times (November, 10, 1996), sec. 4, p. 1.
94. Rosenblatt (n. 84 above), p. 34.
95. Jeffrey Isaac, "Going Local," Dissent 42 (Spring 1995): 184-88.
96. Moynihan, "Defining Deviancy Down" (n. 36 above), p. 26.
97. Isaac (n. 87 above), p. 186.
98. Sean Wilentz, "Populism Redux," Dissent 42 (Spring 1995): 149-52.
99. Ibid., p. 152.
100. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Random House, 1971).
101. Michael Miller, "The War on Poverty: A PBS Special," Social Policy 25 (Spring 1995): 53-61.
102. Katz (n. 4 above).
103. Kallick (n. 76 above), p. 5.
104. Kornblum (n. 69 above).
105. Daniel Bell, "America's Post-Liberal Paradigm Revolution: The Cultural Contradictions of Newt Gingrich," New Perspectives Quarterly 12 (Spring 1995): 7-9.
106. Michelle Cottle, "Reforming Welfare Reform," Washington Monthly 20, no. 11 (November 1996): 9-16.
107. Morris and Hansan (n. 2 above), p. 15.
108. Kuttner, "Notes from the Underground" (n. 72 above), pp. 215-16.
109. Philip Harvey, "Paying for Full Employment: A Hard-Nosed Look at Finances," Social Policy 25 (Spring 1995): 21-30.
110. Robert Reich, "Secession of the Successful," in America's New War on Poverty: A Reader for Action, ed. Robert Lavelle (San Francisco: KQED Books, 1995), pp. xvi-xxiv.
111. Ibid., p. xxiv.
112. Katz (n. 4 above).
113. Ibid., p. 183.
114. Hugh Heclo, "Poverty Politics," in Danziger, Sandefur, and Weinberg, eds. (n. 34 above), pp. 396-437.
115. Ibid., p. 436.
116. Ellen Willis, "Down with Compassion," New Yorker 72 (September 30, 1996): 4-5.
117. Katz (n. 4 above), p. 170.