Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy

by David Stoesz

American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left since the New Deal and what that means for the future of social policy. Stoesz's fascinating account documents how conservative think tanks arose to combat the dominance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195181204
• ISBN13: 9780195181203
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"