No Longer Disabled: The Federal Courts and the Politics of Social Security Disability

by Susan Gluck Mezey

This book focuses on the Reagan administration's broad attempt from 1980 to 1984 to strike thousands of Social Security disability recipients from government rolls. . . . Mezey] enriches her study with a brief history of federal disability policy and provides a review of contending arguments over public policy and judicial activism. Of particular interest is the legal battle over the medical criteria used for determining desability and the SSA's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313254249
• ISBN13: 9780313254246
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"