Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structures, and Legitimacy of Public Policy in a Turbulent Decade

by Brian Balogh

Overview

Essays examining the now-legendary social movements of the 1960s and their impact on American public policy then and now.

Each essay in this volume sheds light on an important aspect of the decade-actually a decade and half-known as the Sixties. The Sixties are famous for the diverse social movements that threatened the essence of American public policy and mainstream society and changed those very entities in fundamental ways. These essays juxtapose the dramatic narratives of social movements, including civil rights, women's liberation, and anti-war protest, and the Cold War liberalism that spawned them. The contributors are two political scientists, several historians influenced by the social sciences, and the senior staff attorney for the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.

FOR ADS: Contributors are Brian Balogh, Hugh Heclo, Martha Derthick, Daryl Michael Scott, W. J. Rorabaugh, Martha F. Davis, and Louis Galambos.

Contents

Introduction / Brian Balogh

The Sixties' False Dawn: Awakenings, Movements, and Postmodern Policy-Making / Hugh Heclo

Crossing Thresholds: Federalism in the 1960s / Martha Derthick

The Politics of Pathology: The Ideological Origins of the Moynihan Controversy / Daryl Michael Scott

Challenging Authority, Seeking Community, and Empowerment in the New Left, Black Power, and Feminism / W. J. Rorabaugh

Welfare Rights and Women's Rights in the 1960s / Martha F. Davis

Paying Up: The Price of the Vietnam War / Louis Galambos

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780271025742
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1996
Series:	Issues in Policy History , #5
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Brian Balogh is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945-1975 (1991).

Table of Contents

Contents

1. Introduction / Brian Balogh

2. The Sixties' False Dawn: Awakenings, Movements, and Postmodern Policy-Making / Hugh Heclo

3. Crossing Thresholds: Federalism in the 1960s / Martha Derthick

4. The Politics of Pathology: The Ideological Origins of the Moynihan

Controversy / Daryl Michael Scott

5. Challenging Authority, Seeking Community, and Empowerment in the New

Left, Black Power, and Feminism / W. J. Rorabaugh

6. Welfare Rights and Women's Rights in the 1960s / Martha F. Davis

7. Paying Up: The Price of the Vietnam War / Louis Galambos