New Directions in Policy History
168 pages | 6 x 9 | 2005
Cloth edition is not available
ISBN 978-0-271-02719-7 | paper: $22.95 sh
Emerging as a distinct subfield in the 1970s, policy history has come to earn a respected place in interdisciplinary scholarship today. In this volume, introduced by an essay that reviews the development of policy history and the intellectual and professional challenges it has faced, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists offers ideas for how policy history might evolve and continue to grow in the years ahead.
Contents
Introduction: New Directions in Policy History, Julian E. Zelizer
Beyond Weak and Strong: Rethinking the State in Comparative Policy History, Peter Baldwin
The Study of Policy Development, Paul Pierson
Ideology and Public Policy: Antistatism in American Welfare State Transformation, Jill Quadagno and Debra Street
On the Importance of Naming: Gender, Race, and the Writing of Policy History, Eileen Boris
Diplomatic History and Policy History: Finding Common Ground, Robert J. McMahon
“Saint George and the Dragon”: Courts and the Development of the Administrative State in Twentieth-Century America, Reuel Schiller
Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History, Jacob S. Hacker
Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History at Boston University.