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Ahead of its Time: On Martha Derthick's Policymaking for Social Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2004

Paul Pierson
Paul Pierson
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Harvard University
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Martha Derthick's Policymaking for Social Security is a great work of political analysis—one of the best studies of the politics of public policy ever produced. Written a quarter-century ago, the argument remains fresh and compelling today—fresher, in fact, than most policy work produced more recently. Indeed, what is striking in revisiting this wonderful book is how Derthick beautifully explores some themes that are only now reasserting themselves in the discipline and commanding the attention of political scientists.

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Symposium
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 441 - 442
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© 2004 by the American Political Science Association

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