TY - BOOK ID - 142267613 TI - Caring for Our Own : Why There is No Political Demand for New American Social Welfare Rights PY - 2014 SN - 0199993149 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Aging parents -- Care. KW - Care -- Family relationships. KW - Social service -- United States. KW - Welfare state -- United States. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142267613 AB - Caring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare needs as the basis for demands for new state entitlements? The answer, Sandra Levitsky argues, lies in a better understanding of how individuals imagine solutions to the social welfare problems they confront and what prevents new understandings of social welfare provision from developing into political demand for alternative social arrangements. ER -