The G.I. Bill (Hardcover)

Scholars have argued about U.S. state development in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen s Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in the first study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydl s research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development, social policy and citizenship, and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy, and, at the very same time, limited its extent and its effects.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Kathleen J. Frydl
Dimensions:	234 x 160 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	396
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-51424-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-51424-X
Barcode:	9780521514248

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