DANIEL BELAND. Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate. (Studies in Government and Public Policy.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xii, 252. $29.95

2006 ◽  
Vol 111 (5) ◽  
pp. 1543-1544
Author(s):  
J. A. McCartin
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The New Deal

Roosevelt: America's Strategist

1945 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-296
Author(s):  
M. A. Fitzsimons
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
New Deal ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Roosevelt Administration ◽  
Peace Settlement ◽  
The New Deal

At his death Franklin Roosevelt's domestic program had long been subordinated to the demands of war, and the toils of establishing a world peace settlement were still to be faced. The relief, recovery and reform measures of the New Deal had been put into effect before the end of the second Roosevelt Administration, several years before he formally abandoned Doctor New Deal. Thereafter, the President's attention was overwhelmingly devoted to preparations for the defense of America, to the maintenance of possible allies, and to the even more difficult task of winning popular and congressional support for these and further measures. In a speech at Chicago, during the campaign of 1944, Roosevelt returned to the theme of social security, but it is hard to believe that even he in all his enormous confidence and vitality could have expected to live through the labors of war and a peace settlement to fight the battles of another New Deal.

Peter Sekaer: Slum Conditions in America

Prospects ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 391-415
Author(s):  
Michael G. Sundell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Farm Security Administration ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
The West ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Federal Bureaucracy ◽  
Resettlement Administration ◽  
The New Deal

To most people, federally-sponsored photography during the New Deal means the splendid file of images created by the Resettlement Administration–later the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Understandable as it is, this equation simplifies truth. By the time of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in March 1933, the use of photography was commonplace in the federal bureaucracy, reflecting practices that had been developing for more than half a century. Since the Civil War, federal officials had profited from the precision of photography and from its deceptive appearance of objectivity to preserve information and sometimes to influence opinion. A few government projects had resulted in compelling educational documentations that were also recognized as compelling art. Most notably, photographers like John Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'sullivan, and Carleton Watkins, tested by the opportunity to expand the possibilities of their medium while addressing a great national theme, had compiled in their records of the exploration of the West documentations that helped to change public policy by providing images with the power to crystallize the country's sense of its identity and potential growth.

Peter Sekaer: Slum Conditions in America

Prospects ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 391-415
Author(s):  
Michael G. Sundell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Farm Security Administration ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
The West ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Federal Bureaucracy ◽  
Resettlement Administration ◽  
The New Deal

To most people, federally-sponsored photography during the New Deal means the splendid file of images created by the Resettlement Administration–later the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Understandable as it is, this equation simplifies truth. By the time of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in March 1933, the use of photography was commonplace in the federal bureaucracy, reflecting practices that had been developing for more than half a century. Since the Civil War, federal officials had profited from the precision of photography and from its deceptive appearance of objectivity to preserve information and sometimes to influence opinion. A few government projects had resulted in compelling educational documentations that were also recognized as compelling art. Most notably, photographers like John Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'sullivan, and Carleton Watkins, tested by the opportunity to expand the possibilities of their medium while addressing a great national theme, had compiled in their records of the exploration of the West documentations that helped to change public policy by providing images with the power to crystallize the country's sense of its identity and potential growth.

The New Deal, Family Security, and the Emergence of a Public Child Welfare System

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Rymph
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Security ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Public Child Welfare ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
The New Deal

This chapter addresses the significance of the New Deal to the development of publicly funded foster care and its relationship to the nascent welfare state. The chapter includes many first-hand accounts of parents turning to foster care because they could not provide both economic support and nurturing care to their children. The chapter argues that the onset of the Great Depression marked a setback for the delivery of child welfare services. However, the promise of a more rational system of federal welfare provision through passage of the Social Security Act and other New Deal programs raised hopes that economic insecurity for families could be so drastically reduced as to eliminate (or at least diminish) the role of poverty in separating children from their families. In addition, Title V of the Social Security Act also provided funds to develop state-level public child welfare services, which helped spur the creation of a child welfare infrastructure.

The Third American Conservation Movement: New Implications for Public Policy

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy O'Riordan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conservation Movement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
American Nation

The American nation is presently caught in the throes of its third conservation movement. It is generally considered that the first American conservation movement in the United States took place during the period 1890–1920, with particular emphasis upon the first decade of the twentieth century, and the second was associated with the New Deal and subsequent policies of Franklin Roosevelt in the period 1933–43. The aim of this paper is to compare the development and the underlying philosophies of the present conservation movement in the United States with the growth and guiding principles of its two predecessors, and to follow this analysis through with a somewhat more normative examination of various implications for public policy which come to light.

Popular Control of Public Policy: A Normal Vote Analysis of the 1968 Election

1972 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Popular Control

The importance of issues in deciding elections changes from one election to the next. As Key has shown, the issues of the role of the federal government in social life helped create the New Deal Democratic majority. In contrast, issues had only a marginal impact on the apolitical elections of the 1950s. Converse's technique of normal vote analysis reveals that issues were again highly related to the vote in 1968. This was particularly true of attitudes toward Vietnam, urban unrest and race, social welfare, and Johnson's performance as president.Yet, even in an election in which issues appear important, some can have very different consequences for popular control of policy than others. On some issues, the electorate exercises no effective constraints on leaders' policy choices. On others (e.g., the escalation in Vietnam), the electorate permits leaders a wide array of options when a policy is adopted and passes a retrospective judgment on such choices in subsequent elections. Finally, on still other issues, the public may limit the options of leaders at the time a policy is adopted. The paper suggests the stringent conditions necessary for this type of popular control to exist.

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