Deserving and entitled: social constructions and public policy

Introduction: Public policy and the social construction of deservedness / Helen M. Ingram, Anne L. Schneider

PART I. HISTORICAL ROOTS OF CONSTRUCTIONS OF DERSERVEDNESS AND ENTITLEMENT

Constructing and entitling America's original veterans / Laura S. Jensen

Constructing the democratic citizen: idiocy and insanity in American suffrage law / Kay Schriner

From 'problem minority' to 'model minority': the changing social construction of Japanese Americans / Stephanie J. DiAlto

PART II. CONGRESSIONAL DISCOURSE: FORGING LINES OF DIVISION BETWEEN DESERVING AND UNDESERVING

Contested images of race and place: the politics of housing discrimination / Mara S. Sidney

'It is not a question of being anti-immigration': categories of deservedness in immigration policy making / Lina Newton

PART III. NONPROFITS, NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DESERVEDNESS

The construction of client identities in a post-welfare social service program: the double bind of microenterprise development / Nancy Jurik, Julie Cowgill

Deservedness in poor neighborhoods: a morality struggle / Michelle Camou

PART IV. CONSTRUCTIONS BY MORAL ENTREPRENEURS AND POLICY ANALYSTS

From perception to public policy: translating social constructions into policy designs / Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Kenneth J. Meier

Jezebels, matriarchs, and welfare queens: the Moynihan Report of 1965 and the social construction of African-American women in welfare policy / Dionne Bensonsmith

Putting a black face on welfare: the good and the bad / Sanford F. Schram

PART V. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS, IDENTITY, CITIZENSHIP, AND PARTICIPATION

Making clients and citizens: welfare policy as a source of status, belief, and action / Joe Soss.