Disciplining the Poor

Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

By: Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram

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Hardcover | 30 November 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Disciplining the Poor lays out the underlying logic of contemporary poverty governance in the United States. The authors argue that poverty governance—how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized—has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments. The rise of paternalism has promoted a more directive and supervisory approach to managing the poor. This has intersected with a second development: the rise of neoliberalism as an organizing principle of governance. Neoliberals have redesigned state operations around market principles; to impose market discipline, core state functions—from war to welfare—have been contracted out to private providers. The authors seek to clarify the origins, operations, and consequences of neoliberal paternalism as a mode of poverty governance, tracing its impact from the federal level, to the state and county level, down to the differences in ways frontline case workers take disciplinary actions in individual cases. The book also addresses the complex role race has come to play in contemporary poverty governance.

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"Disciplining the Poor is a landmark book on the governance of poverty in the United States, the most important such work since Piven and Cloward's Regulating the Poor, written a generation ago, and an exemplar of multi-method social science research." (Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)"

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