Race, Money, and the American Welfare State.(Review) (book review)

By Michael K. Brown. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. 381p. $55.00 cloth, $22.00 paper.

A sound understanding of the formulation and legitimation of social welfare policy in the United States involves making some sense of the interplay of the following set of factors: presidential initiatives and the guidance that the chief executive receives from his advisors; congressional responses to those initiatives (and the partisan and regional features that influence those responses); fiscal policies tied to capital accumulation, national economic growth, and deficit control; ...

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