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New directions in policy history

Author: Julian E Zelizer
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2005.
Series: Issues in policy history.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Emerging as a distinct subfield in the 1970s, policy history has come to earn a respected place in interdisciplinary scholarship today. In this volume, introduced by an essay that reviews the development of policy history and the intellectual and professional challenges it has faced, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists offers ideas for how policy history might evolve and  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Julian E Zelizer
ISBN: 0271027193 9780271027197
OCLC Number: 61151633
Notes: "Originally published as a special issue of Journal of policy history (vol. 17, no, 1, 2005)"--T.p. verso.
Description: ix, 156 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction : new directions in policy history / Julian E. Zelizer --
Beyond weak and strong : rethinking the state in comparative policy history / Peter Baldwin --
The study of policy development / Paul Pierson --
Ideology and public policy : antistatism in American welfare state transformation / Jill Quadagno and Debra Street --
On the importance of naming : gender, race, and the writing of policy history / Eileen Boris --
Diplomatic history and policy history : finding common ground / Robert J. McMahon --
"Saint George and the dragon" : courts and the development of the administrative state in twentieth-century America / Reuel Schiller --
Bringing the welfare state back in : the promise (and perils) of the new social welfare history / Jacob S. Hacker.
Series Title: Issues in policy history.
Other Titles: Journal of policy history.
Responsibility: edited by Julian E. Zelizer.

Abstract:

"Emerging as a distinct subfield in the 1970s, policy history has come to earn a respected place in interdisciplinary scholarship today. In this volume, introduced by an essay that reviews the development of policy history and the intellectual and professional challenges it has faced, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists offers ideas for how policy history might evolve and continue to grow in the years ahead."--Jacket.

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