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In The Delegated Welfare State, the first book in the Oxford Studies in Postwar American Political Development series, Andrea Campbell and Kimberly Morgan use the exampke of Medicare to tackle the federal government's increasing propensity in recent times to outsource governmental functions to the private sector.

Note biographique

Andrea Louise Campbell is Associate Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kimberly J. Morgan is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.

Table des matières

• List of Figures


• List of Tables


• Abbreviations


• Acknowledgements


• Chapter One. Introduction


• The Concept of Delegated Governance


• The Case Study of Medicare


• The Methodology and Organization of This Book


• Chapter Two. Exploring the Delegated Welfare State


• Conceptualizing the Delegated Welfare State


• What Does the Delegated Welfare State Look Like?


• A Cross-National Perspective on Delegated Governance


• Why Did the Delegated Welfare State Emerge in the US?


• Does It Matter How Social Programs Are Administered?


• Conclusion


• Chapter Three. Medicare and the Delegated Welfare State in the Post-War Era


• The Emergence of the Delegated Welfare State


• Delegating the Governance of Medicare


• Conclusion


• Chapter Four. The Rise of the Market Reform Movement


• The Complex Politics of Welfare State Privatization


• The Free Market Movement in Health Care


• The Politics of Marketization


• Conclusion


• Chapter Five. Crafting the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003


• Delegated Governance in the MMA


• The Political Context: Polarization,

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