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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Critchlow, Donald T., 1948- Intended consequences. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607182060 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald T Critchlow |
| ISBN: | 0195046579 9780195046571 0195145933 9780195145939 |
| OCLC Number: | 38542669 |
| Description: | x, 307 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Laying the Foundation for Federal Family Planning Policy: The Eisenhower-Kennedy Years -- 2. Moving Forward Quietly: Family Planning in the Johnson Administration -- 3. Implementing the Policy Revolution Under Johnson and Nixon -- 4. The Backlash: Roman Catholics, Contraceptives, Abortion, and Sterilization -- 5. Richard Nixon and the Politicization of Family Planning Policy -- 6. Contesting the Policy Terrain After Roe: From Reagan to Clinton. |
| Responsibility: | Donald T. Critchlow. |
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<br>"This is policy history at its best. With an eye for both telling detail and larger cultural trends, Critchlow demonstrates the value of careful, impartial historical research on a subject filled with partisan assertion and misinformation. For anyone seeking a historically grounded understanding of the federal government's role in family planning, this is the place to begin."--Hugh Heclo, George Mason University<p><br>"This is policy history at its best. With an eye for both telling detail and larger cultural trends, Prof. Critchlow demonstrates the value of careful, impartial historical research on a subject filled with partisan assertion and misinformation. For anyone seeking a historically grounded understanding of the Federal government's role in family planning, this is the place to begin."--Hugh Heclo, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Public Affairs, George Mason University<p><br>"Intended Consequences provides a superb account of the evolution of federal policy on population issues, family planning, and abortion. Based on prodigious research in little used sources, it illuminates the interaction of philanthropic foundations and popular pressure groups in shaping policy. The themes are controversial, but Critchlow's tone is moderate, his insights shrewd, and his judgements balanced. A work of permanent value." --J. Philip Gleason, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame<p><br>"Nothing puzzles foreign observers of American politics more than the centrality of conflict over public policy on abortion. That conflict appears multifaceted, passionate, recurrent--and out of all proportion to policy impact. Don Critchlow provides a firmly rooted and richly textured picture of its emergence, sufficient to convert the puzzle into an explanation. It is a story where many consequences were not intended, but Intended Consequences proves to be a diagnostic example of what policy history should be." --Bryon E. Shafer, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Govern Read more...

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