Book description
Comprehensively analyzes the American social security program, considering its history, politics, policies, and troubled future and advocating a realistic and less reverent approach to its modification.
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Why read it?
2 authors picked Policymaking for Social Security as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In writing our book, my co-author Greg Berman and I relied heavily on Derthick’s classic 1979 account of the development of Social Security in its first 15 years.
Derthick shows that its intentionally incremental development became the key to its later success as the largest and most successful anti-poverty program ever developed.
Derthick shows how two unheralded government bureaucrats nurtured and protected the program in its early years, including against a very popular and more immediately radical alternative.
The book does a good job of showing that choices made by the architects of government programs in their early days help…
In writing our book, my co-author Greg Berman and I relied heavily on Derthick’s classic 1979 account of the development of Social Security in its first 15 years.
Derthick shows that its intentionally incremental development became the key to its later success as the largest and most successful anti-poverty program ever developed.
Derthick shows how two unheralded government bureaucrats nurtured and protected the program in its early years, including against a very popular and more immediately radical alternative.
The book does a good job of showing that choices made by the architects of government programs in their early days help…
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