Privatizing the polity

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Privatizing the polity

Statement of responsibility

Holona LeAnne Ochs

Creator

• Ochs, Holona LeAnne

Subject

• Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States
• Poverty -- Government policy -- United States
• Privatization -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Research on poverty and research on governance currently exist as largely disparate literatures without a framework for building knowledge regarding how policies and practices compare as poverty alleviation strategies. In Privatizing the Polity, Holona LeAnne Ochs examines the evolution of the governance of welfare programs across the United States. Throughout the political spectrum the trend in recent decades has been towards welfare privatization, shifting the boundaries of poverty governance from public to private actors<U+0127> �whether they are foundations or social entrepreneurs<U+0127> �whose interests in poverty governance are more obscure. The analysis of more than eighteen years of data suggests that strategies of devolution and privatization make it more difficult for people to move out of poverty. At the same time the framework for understanding the governance structures, enactment practices, and social wealth leverage presented in Privatizing the Polity offers numerous opportunities for acquiring a deeper understanding of assumptions formerly taken for granted and redirecting the system to enhance poverty alleviation.--

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography