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- catalog abstract ""With a merciless eye for historical absurdity, Steven M. Gillon examines this century's reforms and legal innovation - federal welfare policy, community mental health, immigration, and campaign finance reform, to name an additional few - and describes the unintended consequences of their enactment. The result is a brisk, instructive, and disturbing study that will be required reading for all students of government and society, and for anyone who wishes to avoid the perils that stalk legislative bodies."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "That is not what we meant to do".
- catalog contributor b11692308.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social policy.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""With a merciless eye for historical absurdity, Steven M. Gillon examines this century's reforms and legal innovation - federal welfare policy, community mental health, immigration, and campaign finance reform, to name an additional few - and describes the unintended consequences of their enactment. The result is a brisk, instructive, and disturbing study that will be required reading for all students of government and society, and for anyone who wishes to avoid the perils that stalk legislative bodies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-241) and index.".
- catalog extent "288 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0393048845".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton,".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social policy.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "361.6/1/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Campaign funds United States.".
- catalog subject "HV57 .G56 2000".
- catalog subject "Social legislation United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "That is not what we meant to do".
- catalog title "That's not what we meant to do : reform and its unintended consequences in twentieth-century America / Steven M. Gillon.".
- catalog type "text".