Deserving and Entitled

Anne L. Schneider is Dean of the College of Public Programs at Arizona State University. Helen M. Ingram is Professor Emerita of Planning, Policy, and Design and Political Science at the University of California at Irvine, and Research Fellow, Southwest Center, at the University of Arizona. Schneider and Ingram have published many books, including coauthoring Policy Design for Democracy.

• Foreword by Deborah Stone Introduction: Public Policy and the Social Construction of DeservednessHELEN M. INGRAM AND ANNE L. SCHNEIDER PART I: Historical Roots of Constructions of Deservedness and Entitlement 1. Constructing and Entitling America's Original VeteransLAURA S. JENSEN 2. Constructing the Democratic Citizen: Idiocy and Insanity in American Suffrage LawKAY SCHRINER 3. From "Problem Minority" to "Model Minority": The Changing Social Construction of Japanese AmericansSTEPHANIE DIALTO PART II: Congressional Discourse: Forging Lines of Division between Deserving and Undeserving 4. Contested Images of Race and Place: The Politics of Housing DiscriminationMARA S. SIDNEY 5. "It Is Not a Question of Being Anti-immigration": Categories of Deservedness in Immigration Policy MakingLINA NEWTON PART III: Nonprofits, Neighborhood Organizations, and the Social Construction of Deservedness 6. The Construction of Client Identities in a Post-welfare Social Service Program: The Double Bind of Microenterprise DevelopmentNANCY JURIK AND JULIE COWGILL 7. Deservedness in Poor Neighborhoods: A Morality StruggleMICHELLE CAMOU Part IV: Constructions by Moral Entrepreneurs and Policy Analysts 8. From Perception to Public Policy: Translating Social Constructions into Policy DesignsSEAN NICHOLSON-CROTTY AND KENNETH J. MEIER 9. Jezebels, Matriarchs, and Welfare Queens: The Moynihan Report of 1965 and the Social Construction of African-American Women in Welfare PolicyDIONNE BENSONSMITH 10. Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the BadSANFORD F. SCHRAM PART V: Social Constructions, Identity, Citizenship, and Participation 11. Making Clients and Citizens: Welfare Policy as a Source of Status, Belief, and ActionJOE SOSS References Contributors Index