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1. Weir, Margaret, Orloff, Ann Shola, and Skocpol, Theda, “Introduction: Understanding American Social Politics,” in , Weir, , Orloff, and , Skocpol, eds., The Politics of Social Policy in the United States (Princeton, 1988), 3–35.

2. See, for example, Berkowitz, Edward D., “Social Welfare and the American State,” in Critchlow, Donald T. and Hawley, Ellis W., eds., Federal Social Policy: The Historical Dimension (University Park, Pa., 1988), 171–200.