The emergence, growth, and redirection of social security: an interpretive history from a public choice perspective

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dc.contributor.authorWeaver, Carolyn L.en
dc.contributor.committeechairWagner, Richar E.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBuchanan, James M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWestman, Erik C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberStaaf, Robert J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberTideman, Nicolausen
dc.contributor.departmentEconomicsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:18:30Zen
dc.date.adate2012-09-08en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:18:30Zen
dc.date.issued1977-08-05en
dc.date.rdate2012-09-08en
dc.date.sdate2012-09-08en
dc.description.abstractIn an overall sense, the purpose of this study is to analyze and interpret, from a public choice perspective, the emergence, redirection, and growth of Social Security. To date, there has been no attempt to explain the evolution of this program within an integrated framework of non-market institutional change which incorporates both the recent literature on the economics of bureaucracy with the more traditional literature on the demand for public sector activity. As such, this study represents an endeavor to recast and review the historical institutional evolution of Social Security, taking account explicitly of a theory of bureaucracy, so that the current and future growth as well as the proliferation of the program need not be viewed as entirely unforeseen and with results that are often unpredictable. Alternatively, this economic, political, and institutional case-study of Social Security can be viewed as a preliminary test of the relative explanation power of pure demand- and pure supply-side models of public sector growth.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.extentx, 500 leaveen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-09082012-040250en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09082012-040250/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/39311en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V856_1977.W428.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 40274336en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectsocial security plansen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V856 1977.W428en
dc.titleThe emergence, growth, and redirection of social security: an interpretive history from a public choice perspectiveen
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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