| Contents |
Welfare and the transformation of electoral politics / Frances Fox Piven -- The democratic party and the politics of welfare reform / Ronald Walters -- Urban America: crushed in the growth machine / Harvey Molotch -- Rhetoric, recision, and reaction: the development of homelessness policy / Cynthia J. Bogard and J. Jeff McConnell -- Social Security policy and the entitlement debate: the new American exceptionalism / Jill Quadagno -- Wealth and poverty in the national economy: the domestic foundations of Clinton's global policy / Morris Morley and James Petras -- America's military industrial make-over / Ann Markusen -- Big missions and big business: military and corporate dominance of federal science policy / Gregory Hooks and Gregory McLauchlan -- Active-competitive industrial policy from elite project to logic of action / J. Kenneth Benson and Nick Paretsky -- Where are all the Democrats?: the limits of economic policy reform / Patrick Akard -- The failure of health-care reform the role of big business in policy formation / Beth Mintz -- The malignant masses on CNN: media use of public opinion polls to fabricate the "conservative majority" against health-care reform / Clarence Y.H. Lo -- Popular consensus or political extortion?: making soldiers the means and ends of US military deployments / Jerry Lee Lembcke -- Theorizing and politicizing choice in the 1996 election / Zillah Eisenstein -- The right family values / Judith Stacey -- Welfare reform and reproductive politics on a collision course: contradictions in the conservative agenda / Carole Joffe -- Conclusion: business action, ideological acting, and institutional enactment: economic constraints on social policy / Clarence Y.H. Lo. |
