Wealth and Welfare States —— Is America a Laggard or Leader?

----- 财富和福利国家：美国是一个落后者或领导者？

ISBN: 9780199579310 出版年：2010 页码：265 Garfinkel, Irwin Rainwater, Lee Smeeding, Timothy Oxford University Press

1. Introduction 2. Why All Rich Nations Have Large Welfare States 3. The Size, Nature, And Universality of Welfare State Transfers 4. How Welfare State Programs Redistribute Income, Reduce Poverty and Inequality, Build and Sustain Human Capital, and Promote Opportunity 5. A Short American Centric History of Welfare State Programs and Outcomes 6. Explaining American Exceptionalism: Laggard in Public Relief and Social Insurance: Leader in Education 7. Explaining Us Divergence in Last Quarter of 20th Century: The Long Swing Right 8. The Future of the American Welfare State