Ending Welfare As We Know It

"['Ending Welfare as We Know It'] present[s] us with insightful and fresh analyses of the welfare reform policy process.... [The book] has a lot to offer to students and scholars in a variety of fields.... The analysis [is] informed by solid theoretical frameworks and grounded in the realities of welfare reform.... I strongly recommend ['Ending Welfare as We Know It']." --Mary Ann E. Steger, Northern Arizona University, "Journal of Politics", 8/1/2002 "Weaver has produced a very readable account of welfare reform and the final victory.... This incredibly thorough and detailed history will interest professionals in the social services as well as historians and political scientists." --D.R. Jamieson, Ashland University, "Choice", 7/1/2001 "The book is a useful chronology of the developments that culminated in the 1996 Personal Responsibility Act.... Weaver offers helpful summaries of the most important issues in welfare." --Brendan Conway, "Philanthropy Roundtable", 7/1/2001 "An encyclopedic, prodigiously researched volume that bids fair to become the standard work on reform of the United States welfare system in the final decades of the twentieth century.... provide(s) a rich intellectual and policy history for the legislation that Clinton ultimately signed in 1996." --Russell L. Riley, University of Virginia, "Congress & the Presidency", 10/1/2001 "This book is well-written, meticulous in its use of research, extensively documented, and comprehensive in its coverage of the process leading to welfare reform." --Sanford F. Schram, Bryn Mawr College, "Political Science Quarterly", 4/1/2002 "A definitive account of the most startling change in the American welfare state.... Mr. Weaver's book will remain the authoritative history of one of the 20th century's most stunning revolutions in social policy." --Thomas Main, Baruch College, "Wall Street Journal", 12/4/2000