Social Security and the Politics of Deservingness
This book seeks to understand the politics of deservingness for future Social Security reforms through an interpretive policy analysis of the 2005 Social Security privatization debates. What does it mean for politics and policymaking that Social Sec
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Social Security and the Politics of Deservingness
Susanne N. Beechey
Social Security and the Politics of Deservingness
Susanne N. Beechey Whitman College Walla Walla, Washington, USA
ISBN 978-1-349-91889-8 ISBN 978-1-349-91891-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-91891-1
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I dedicate this book to the generations of my family who supported its production: my children Emile and Lucas, my spouse Everett, my parents Gisela and Dean, and my grandmother Susanne. Thank you to Ivy Ken, Joe Cordes, Kimberly Morgan, Cynthia Harrison, and Sonya Michel for their comments on an earlier articulation of this project as my dissertation in Gender and Social Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Thank you to my colleagues in the Politics Department at Whitman College for their comments on one chapter in particular and especially to Bruce Magnusson and Shampa Biswas for their support and guidance in general. Thank you to my students, particularly those in my Deservingness in US Social Policy seminars, for pushing my ideas and invigorating my thinking. I gratefully acknowledge the research assistance of former students Emily Percival and Elana Simon whose work was supported through the Louis B. Perry Summer Research Scholarship and Robert Y. Fluno Award of Whitman College, respectively, as well as the financial support of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation American Dissertation Fellowship.
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Introduction Social Security Politics: More than Just Political Power Deserving and Undeserving Target Populations The 2005 Social Security Privati
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