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Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle
Altman, Stuart
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Blending political intrigue, policy substance, and old-fashioned storytelling, this is the first book to place the Obama health plan within historical perspective. Altman was a key participant at critical junctures in the history of health reform.


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Postville: USA: Surviving Diversity in Small-Town America
Grey, Mark A.
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Postville is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in the most unlikely of places, unparalleled diversity drew international media. Now people declare the towns experiment in multiculturalism dead. It was not native Iowans, or... [More...]


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Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours
Longman, Phillip
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"Best Care Anywhere" uses the VA turnaround to illustrate deeper lessons for the U.S. health care system. In particular, it shows how fee-for-service health care leads to more expensive, less comprehensive, and less effective health care.
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Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services
Lipsky, Michael
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Keeping Women and Children Last Revised
Sidel, Ruth
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A renowned sociologist revists the explosive issue of women, children, and poverty in this hard-hitting sequel to her searing expose. Sidel explores the condition of America's poor women today, with particular focus on the federal government's attempts to... [More...]


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An "Epidemic" of Adolescent Pregnancy?: Some Historical and Policy Considerations
Vinovskis, Maris A.
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In classrooms and in living rooms, in research institutions and on Capitol Hill, teenage pregnancy is one of the most controversial public issues of our day. Yet after all the investigation and government effort, what is really known about the problem of... [More...]


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Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany
Nolan, Mary
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In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized... [More...]


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The Youth Gang Problem: A Community Approach
Spergel, Irving A.
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The author, who is involved in evaluating Chicago's gang reduction and intervention programs, provides a systematic analysis of youth gangs in the United States and examines the factors of gang member personality, gang dynamics, criminal organization, and... [More...]


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Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America
Critchlow, Donald T.
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After World War II, U.S. policy experts—convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster—successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate federally-funded family planning. In Intended Consequences,... [More...]


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Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe
Gallie, Duncan
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Over the last twenty years, most countries have experienced periods of high unemployment. While this always leads to increased poverty and personal distress, the severity of the effects has varied substantially from country to country. This book looks... [More...]


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