Table of Contents

Foreword by Senator Christopher Dodd 1. Introduction Why Study Child Care Politics? Context of the Book 2. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1971 Overview of the Book 3. From Political Stalemate to Welfare Entitlement, 1972-1988 Prelude to Child Care Legislation of 1971 4. Politics of Child Care Legislation, 1987-1990 Child Care Lands on the Legislative Agenda 5. Regulations, Implementation, and High Expectations, 1991-1993 Moving Child Care Through Congress 6. Child Care and Welfare Reform, 1994--1996 Nixon and Child Care: A Battle Among the President's Men 7. High Hopes, 1997-2000 The Demise of Child Care Legislation 8. A View from the States, 1996--2000 Federal Interagency Day Care Regulations 9. Looking Back and to the Future The Early 1980s: Retrenchment and Regrouping Welfare Reform Features the First Federal Child Care Entitlement Launching a Child Care Initiative The Other Side of the Story: Conservatives Offer Competing Proposals 1989: Senate Success 1989: The House Imbroglio over Child Care Legislation 1990: The Last Chance Placing Child Care Regulations in Context CCDBG Regulations Spark Feuds over Standards and Other Concerns At-Risk Child Care Regulations Add More Fuel to the Fire Implementing the 1990 Child Care Package 1993: A New Political Era 1994: Elections Set a New Stage for Child Care Child Care and Welfare Reform Legislation The Changed Face of Political Action for Child Care and Children 1997: New Opportunities for Child Care 1998: New Twists for Child Care Legislation Ushering Federal Child Care Policy into the Twenty-first Century Child Care and American Federalism Federal Child Care Regulations Revisited Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Care Linking Child Care with Other Early Education Initiatives It's Not Just Women's Participation in the Labor Force What's Institutional Structure Got to Do with It? The Influence of Organized Interests Looking Ahead State Child Care Policies Assume a New Look

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Based on more than 100 interviews with government officials and extensive archival research, this book looks at the politics behind child care legislation. Identifying key times at which major child care bills were introduced, Cohen examines the politics surrounding these events and subsequent political negotiations. Cohen also looks at the impact President Clinton had on child care policymaking and how child care legislation became part of other issues, including welfare reform and tax policy revisions.

About the Author

Sally S. Cohen is an associate professor at Yale University and the director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at the Yale University School of Nursing. She lives in Stamford, CT.

Reviews

"An inside glimpse of the powerful voices that have contributed to our national child care agenda." - Senator Christopher Dodd (from the foreword)"