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Bibliographic Details

Title

Making an Issue of Child Abuse

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0226572013

ISBN 13

9780226572017

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

New

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In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. Using extensive personal interviews and detailed archival research, she reconstructs an invaluable history of child abuse policy in America. She shows how the mass media presented child abuse to the public, how government agencies acted and interacted, and how state and national legislatures were spurred to strong action on this issue. Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the public agenda. This issue of child abuse, she argues, clearly reveals the scope and limitations of social change initiated through interest-group politics. Unfortunately, the process that transforms an issue into a popular cause, Nelson concludes, brings about programs that ultimately address only the symptoms and not the roots of such social problems.

About the Author

Barbara J. Nelson was professor of political science and co-director of the Center on Women and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota.

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