| Championing Child Care Contributor(s): Cohen, Sally (Author), Dodd, Senator Christopher (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 023111236X ISBN-13: 9780231112369 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Why has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch officials, archival research, and secondary sources, this book looks at the politics behind child care legislation, rather than analyzing child care as a work and family issue. Identifying key junctures at which major child care bills were introduced and debated (1971, 1990, and 1996), Sally Cohen examines the politics surrounding each of these events and identifies the political structures and negotiations that evolved in the intervening years. In addition, Cohen looks at the impact the election of President Clinton has had on child care policymaking, and how child care legislation became part of other issues, including welfare reform, crime prevention, school readiness, and tax policy revisions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare |
| Dewey: 362.712 |
| LCCN: 2001028627 |
| Lexile Measure: 1620 |
| Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 2 |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.65" W x 8.65" (1.49 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
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| Publisher Description: Why has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch officials, archival research, and secondary sources, this book looks at the politics behind child care legislation, rather than analyzing child care as a work and family issue. Identifying key junctures at which major child care bills were introduced and debated (1971, 1990, and 1996), Sally Cohen examines the politics surrounding each of these events and identifies the political structures and negotiations that evolved in the intervening years. In addition, Cohen looks at the impact the election of President Clinton has had on child care policymaking, and how child care legislation became part of other issues, including welfare reform, crime prevention, school readiness, and tax policy revisions. |