Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
With a shrewd eye for historical absurdity, Gillon takes readers on a tour of this century's reforms and legal innovations--federal welfare policy, community mental health, immigration, and campaign finance reform, to name a few--and describes the unintended consequences of their enactment.
Table of Contents
American exceptionalism and the promise of unintended consequences -- Irony of reform: origins of Federal Welfare Policy, 1935 -- Politics of deinstitutionalization: the Community Health Act of 1963 -- Strange career of affirmative action: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Still the golden door?: the Immigration Act of 1965 -- Politics of campaign finance reform: the Federal Election Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1974.