The new welfare consensus : ideological, political, and social origins

Introduction -- The old libertarian right and American anti-welfarism, from the interwar period to 1960 -- Traditionalist conservatism and new right anti-welfarism, the world war II-era to 1960 -- Fertile fields for anti-welfarist ideology in the 1960s -- The rightward drift of American liberalism and the neoconservative attack on the social safety net in the 1950s and 1960s -- Elite mobilization against the safety net -- Stabilizing the myth of the welfare queen : the economistic paternalism of Reagan-era anti-welfarism -- The new welfare consensus : US welfare policy discourse in the 1980s and 1990s -- Conclusion