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New Directions in Policy History

Edited by Julian E Zelizer

168 pages | 6 x 9 | 2005

Cloth edition is not available

ISBN 978-0-271-02719-7 | paper: $22.00 sh

Issues in Policy History Series


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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.



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