Foreword by Deborah Stone
Introduction: Public Policy and the Social Construction of Deservedness
HELEN M. INGRAM AND ANNE L. SCHNEIDER
PART I: Historical Roots of Constructions of Deservedness and Entitlement
1. Constructing and Entitling America's Original Veterans
LAURA S. JENSEN
2. Constructing the Democratic Citizen: Idiocy and Insanity in American Suffrage Law
KAY SCHRINER
3. From "Problem Minority" to "Model Minority": The Changing Social Construction of Japanese Americans
STEPHANIE DIALTO
PART II: Congressional Discourse: Forging Lines of Division between Deserving and Undeserving
4. Contested Images of Race and Place: The Politics of Housing Discrimination
MARA S. SIDNEY
5. "It Is Not a Question of Being Anti-immigration": Categories of Deservedness in Immigration Policy Making
LINA NEWTON
PART III: Nonprofits, Neighborhood Organizations, and the Social Construction of Deservedness
6. The Construction of Client Identities in a Post-welfare Social Service Program: The Double Bind of Microenterprise Development
NANCY JURIK AND JULIE COWGILL
7. Deservedness in Poor Neighborhoods: A Morality Struggle
MICHELLE CAMOU
Part IV: Constructions by Moral Entrepreneurs and Policy Analysts
8. From Perception to Public Policy: Translating Social Constructions into Policy Designs
SEAN NICHOLSON-CROTTY AND KENNETH J. MEIER
9. Jezebels, Matriarchs, and Welfare Queens: The Moynihan Report of 1965 and the Social Construction of African-American Women in Welfare Policy
DIONNE BENSONSMITH
10. Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad
SANFORD F. SCHRAM
PART V: Social Constructions, Identity, Citizenship, and Participation
11. Making Clients and Citizens: Welfare Policy as a Source of Status, Belief, and Action
JOE SOSS
References
Contributors
Index