ISBN: 9780226572017

In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspec… Plus…

In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems. Books > Social and Cultural Studies > Political Science > Politics > Social Services and Welfare List_Books, [PU: University of Chicago Press]<

ISBN: 9780226572017

Find Making an Issue of Child Abuse by Barbara J. Nelson in Paperback - Revised Ed. and other formats in Political Science > Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare. Media > Books ne… Plus…

Find Making an Issue of Child Abuse by Barbara J. Nelson in Paperback - Revised Ed. and other formats in Political Science > Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare. Media > Books new, University of Chicago Press<

ISBN: 9780226572017

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