Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Contending Conservatisms: Locating Divergences and Commonalities
8. The Old Libertarian Right and American Antiwelfarism 31
9. Traditionalist Conservatism and New Right Antiwelfarism, 61
10. The Ascendance Of the Neoconservatives
11. Fertile Terrain for Antiwelfarist Ideology 89
12. The Rightward Drift Of American Liberalism and the Neoconservative Attack on the Social Safety Net 115
13. Mobilizing a Countermovement and Constructing the Welfare Poor in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
14. Elite Mobilization Against the Safety Net 147
15. Stabilizing the Myth of the Welfare Queen 181
16. The New Welfare Consensus
17. Prwora and US Welfare Policy Discourse 203
18. Conclusion 229
19. Notes 245
20. References 247
21. Index 277