Family Policy Past As Prologue: Jimmy Carter, the White House Conference on Families, and the Mobilization of the New Christian Right.
The White House Conference on Families both exemplified the contested nature of “family policy” since the late nineteenth century and inaugurated the latest phase in the venerable invocation of “family values” as a lactic for political mobilization. In 1976 presidential candidate Jimmy Carter propos...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 311 - 338 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
March 2006
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