Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780195376630

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195376630.001.0001

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ContentsFRONT MATTER

Title Pages
Dedication
PREFACE
United in Diversity?
INTRODUCTION
PART I STATE: STRUCTURE AND POLICY
- SECTION I DEMOCRATIC FUNCTIONING
  - 1 DEMOCRATIC QUALITY IN AMERICA AND EUROPE
  - 2 LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA TODAY
- SECTION II POLITICAL INTEGRATION
  - 3 THE INEQUALITY OF ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION IN EUROPE AND AMERICA AND THE POLITICALLY INTEGRATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE WELFARE STATE
  - 4 INCOME INEQUALITY AND PARTICIPATION IN ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
- SECTION III PATTERNS OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
  - 5 PATTERNS OF STATE EXPENDITURE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
  - 6 COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF STATENESS AND STATE ACTION: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM PATTERNS OF EXPENDITURE?
- SECTION IV CITIZENSHIP AND WELFARE
  - 7 CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES OF SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP IN EUROPE: THE CASE OF POVERTY AND INCOME SUPPORT FOR THE POOR
  - 8 THE NEW AMERICAN MODEL OF WORK-CONDITIONED PUBLIC SUPPORT
PART II SOCIETY: CONDITIONS AND OUTCOMES
- SECTION V THE GOAL OF FULL EMPLOYMENT
  - 9 WELFARE AND EMPLOYMENT: A EUROPEAN DILEMMA?
  - 10 FULFILLING THE BALLYHOO OF A PEAK ECONOMY? THE U.S. ECONOMIC MODEL
- SECTION VI INEQUALITY AND MOBILITY
  - 11 EGALITARIANISM VERSUS ECONOMIC DYNAMICS? AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE FRIEDMAN CONJECTURE
  - 12 ARE THE INEQUALITY AND MOBILITY TRENDS OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION'S FUTURE?
- SECTION VII EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
  - 13 EDUCATION IN EUROPE AND THE LISBON BENCHMARKS
  - 14 THE U.S. EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: CAN IT BE A MODEL FOR EUROPE?
- SECTION VIII IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION
  - 15 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, DIFFERENT GROUPS, SAME MECHANISMS? THE STRUCTURAL ASSIMILATION OF THE SECOND GENERATION IN EUROPE (D, F, GB) AND THE UNITED STATES
  - 16 IMMIGRATION AND NATIVISM IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE: DEMOGRAPHY AND GLOBALIZATION VERSUS THE NATION-STATE
- SECTION IX CONCLUSION
  - 17 THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF COMPARATIVE ANALYSES: WHAT DO WE KNOW?
END MATTER
INDEX

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THE NEW AMERICAN MODEL OF WORK-CONDITIONED PUBLIC SUPPORT

Chapter:: (p. 176 ) 8 THE NEW AMERICAN MODEL OF WORK-CONDITIONED PUBLIC SUPPORT
Source:: United in Diversity?
Author(s):: Rebecca M. Blank
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195376630.003.0009

Observers have long discussed American “exceptionalism” in social policy. Throughout the 20th century, the United States had a more limited welfare state than most Western European nations. Over the last 15 years, the United States has made substantial changes in its social assistance programs. These changes place the United States at the forefront of developing a new model for the provision of social assistance, under which more dollars are delivered to able-bodied recipients through work-conditioned transfers rather than through cash assistance programs to non-workers. This chapter describes these changes, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of this new American system.

Keywords: United States, exceptionalism, welfare state, social welfare, social assistance programs

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