Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
21.05.2009
Verlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
396
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/2.8 cm
Gewicht
680 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-521-51424-8
Scholars have argued about U.S. state development - in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity - for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates, but, as yet, no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in this study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydl's research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development, social policy and citizenship, and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy, and, at the very same time, limited its extent and its effects.
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