... approach for their AFDC recipients. Risk-based Medicaid managed care for AFDC recipients assumes a distinct purpose and meaning. The reform is not just about cost control and improving access but about enduring welfare concerns: deservingness, need, and empowerment. Despite recent federal policies...

..., the dynamics of this bridging function has differed in different phases of policy development (such as welfare-state establishment, retrenchment, and redesign), depending on the state of discourse in each realm. In the establishment phase in which most programs of universal health care coverage were adopted...

... © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 health care polarization welfare state On July 28, 2017, Senator John McCain approached GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the well of the Senate. The moment was freighted: The Arizona Republican who had lost to Barack Obama in the 2008...

... a threat—to patients’ health and well-being. How can we mitigate the threats to patient welfare posed by financial incentives and guidelines? We propose and analyze six safeguards. These safeguards are not an attempt to revive the fee-for-service system, but an effort to make managed care ethical...

... Books Review Essay Commitment, Conservatism, and the Welfare State Eric Patashnik. Putting Trust in the U.S. Budget: Federal Trust Funds and the Politics of Commitment. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 2000. 246 pp. $54.95 cloth; $19.95...

...Lawrence R. Jacobs Marie Gottschalk. The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. 320 pp. $47.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

.... In elite rhetoric and political framing, Medicaid was increasingly cast as a broad-based social welfare entitlement of value to all Americans, including middle-class citizens. Some health care advocates began viewing Medicaid expansions as a potential path to achieving universal coverage in the United...

...: Leaving the Decentralized Welfare Path? Karsten Vrangbæk University of Copenhagen Terkel Christiansen University...

...Brian K. Gran Jacob Hacker. The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 464 pp. $55.00 cloth; $23.00 paper. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005...

...Laura A. Schmidt; James Wiley; Daniel Dohan; Denise Zabkiewicz; Laurie M. Jacobs; Stuart Henderson; Matthew Zivot Sharp declines in welfare rolls since the passage of welfare reform legislation have led many to label it a social policy success. Using data from prereform and postreform samples...

...Kieke G. H. Okma Paul Pierson. Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher, and the Politics of Retrenchment. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 213 pp. $17.95. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Heidenheimer , A. J. , H. Heclo, and C. Teich...

...Suzanne Mettler Andrea Louise Campbell. How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 229 pp. $52.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. Duke University Press 2006 Soss, Joe. 2005 . Unwanted Claims...

... that this question rested on the erroneous assumption that all nations would or should follow a European model of welfare-state development. It also kept scholars from examining the actual health care system that had developed in the United States, because their Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

...Rukmalie Jayakody; Sheldon Danziger; Harold Pollack Reform has transformed traditional entitlement to cash welfare under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) into a transitional program known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). Because of the new work requirements...

...Karl Kronebusch From 1984 to 1990, Congress enacted a series of mandates that expanded Medicaid eligibility for low-income children by gradually delinking Medicaid eligibility from welfare eligibility. The 1996 national welfare reform law nominally completed the delinking process when the statutory...

...Michael K. Brown Douglas E. Ashford, The Emergence of Welfare States (London: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 352 pp. Jill Quadagno, The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 253 pp. Margaret Weir...

... , Thomas . 1994 . How to Define a Foreigner? The Symbolic Politics of Immigration in German Partisan Discourse. ZES Arbeitspapier No. 12/1993. Bremen: University of Bremen, Center for Social Policy. Faist , Thomas , and Bill Jordan. 1994 . Migration and the Welfare State. Unpublished manuscript...

... , Edward . 1991 . America's Welfare State from Roosevelt to Reagan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Cook , Fay , and Edith Barrett. 1992 . Support for the American Welfare State: The Views of Congress and the Public. New York: Columbia University Press. Culyer , A. J. 1986...

...Daniel M. Fox Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, and Philip L. Harvey. America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities. New York: Basic Books, 1990. xvii + 268 pp. $22.95 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...

...Deborah A. Stone Neil Gilbert, Capitalism and the Welfare State: Dilemmas of Social Benevolence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), 196 pp., $16.95 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 334 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...