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Politics and Jobs - The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States (Paperback, Revised)
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Politics and Jobs - The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States (Paperback, Revised)
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Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly
profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why,
then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in
the USA? To answer this question, Margaret Weir highlights two
related elements: the power of ideas in policy-making and the
politics of interest formation. Rather than seeing policy as a
straightforward outcome of public preferences, she shows how ideas
frame problems and how interests form around possibilities created
by the interplay of ideas and politics. By examining Keynesian
macroeconomic policy in the 1930s and 1940s, labour market policies
in the 1960s and 1970s, and efforts to develop new planning
mechanisms in the late 1970s, Weir shows how early decisions
restricted the scope for later initiatives. As a result, policies
in the 1960s emphasized racial differences and thus drew opposition
for creating special interest measures for Afro-Americans.
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