Championing child care
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Championing child care
（Power, conflict, and democracy : American politics into the twenty-first century）
Columbia University Press, c2001
- : pbk
Available at 8 libraries
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"With a foreword by Senator Christopher Dodd"--On cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Why has child care legislation developed along its present course? How did the political players influence lawmakers? What do the politics of child care legislation over the past thirty years indicate for the future? Based on more than one hundred interviews with legislators and executive branch officials, archival research, and secondary sources, this book looks at the politics behind child care legislation, rather than analyzing child care as a work and family issue. Identifying key junctures at which major child care bills were introduced and debated (1971, 1990, and 1996), Sally Cohen examines the politics surrounding each of these events and identifies the political structures and negotiations that evolved in the intervening years. In addition, Cohen looks at the impact the election of President Clinton has had on child care policymaking, and how child care legislation became part of other issues, including welfare reform, crime prevention, school readiness, and tax policy revisions.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Senator Christopher Dodd 1. Introduction Why Study Child Care Politics? Context of the Book 2. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1971 Overview of the Book 3. From Political Stalemate to Welfare Entitlement, 1972-1988 Prelude to Child Care Legislation of 1971 4. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1987-1990 Child Care Lands on the Legislative Agenda 5. Regulations, Implementation, and High Expectations, 1991-1993 Moving Child Care Through Congress 6. Child Care and Welfare Reform, 1994--1996 Nixon and Child Care: A Battle Among the President's Men 7. High Hopes, 1997-2000 The Demise of Child Care Legislation 8. A View from the States, 1996--2000 Federal Interagency Day Care Regulations 9. Looking Back and to the Future The Early 1980s: Retrenchment and Regrouping Welfare Reform Features the First Federal Child Care Entitlement Launching a Child Care Initiative The Other Side of the Story: Conservatives Offer Competing Proposals 1989: Senate Success 1989: The House Imbroglio over Child Care Legislation 1990: The Last Chance Placing Child Care Regulations in Context CCDBG Regulations Spark Feuds over Standards and Other Concerns At-Risk Child Care Regulations Add More Fuel to the Fire Implementing the 1990 Child Care Package 1993: A New Political Era 1994: Elections Set a New Stage for Child Care Child Care and Welfare Reform Legislation The Changed Face of Political Action for Child Care and Children 1997: New Opportunities for Child Care 1998: New Twists for Child Care Legislation Ushering Federal Child Care Policy into the Twenty-first Century Child Care and American Federalism Federal Child Care Regulations Revisited Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Care Linking Child Care with Other Early Education Initiatives It's Not Just Women's Participation in the Labor Force What's Institutional Structure Got to Do with It? The Influence of Organized Interests Looking Ahead State Child Care Policies Assume a New Look
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