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114126
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2012.
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Compared with other developed countries, the United States has very low taxes, little income redistribution, and an extraordinarily complex tax code. If it wanted to, the government could raise taxes without crippling growth or productivity. Tax reform is ultimately a political choice, not an economic one -- a statement about what sort of society Americans want.
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140216
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The main takeaway for many readers of Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State? concerns the durability of social welfare programs. Certainly for the period that Pierson analyzes, the conservative governments of Reagan and Thatcher largely failed to retrench welfare state spending. Both overall social spending and the split between universal and targeted programs remained fl at during the 1980s, despite the great hopes and eff orts of those administrations.
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142739
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Intimate ethnography presents a number of challenges: How could I write about my own family in a way that was true to their experience but also an “objective” report? How could I convey telling details without robbing my family of their privacy? How could I rein in my emotions to report their story, and did I pick and choose facts to protect them or to make them more sympathetic? How could I generalize from their experience to that of millions of social assistance recipients? In this Reflections essay, I consider these challenges in light of what other social scientists have said about the issues of close work with individual, sometimes vulnerable, research subjects.
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ID:
097821
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