Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems - Tapa blanda

Nelson, Barbara J. J.

 
9780226572017: Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems
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ISBN 10: 0226572013 ISBN 13: 9780226572017
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1986

Sinopsis

In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.

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Acerca del autor

Barbara J. Nelson was professor of political science and co-director of the Center on Women and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota.

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In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private- sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1986
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226572013
ISBN 13 
9780226572017
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
184
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ISBN 10:  0226572005 ISBN 13:  9780226572000
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1986
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