| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5 | The History Cooperative

Daniel Béland. Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate. (Studies in Government and Public Policy.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2005. Pp. xii, 252. $29.95.
In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the history of the American welfare state. Much of the best of that work has probed the Social Security program, which was founded in 1935 and expanded and modified repeatedly in subsequent years. The debates surrounding the history of Social Security are complex, and the theoretical approaches taken by the scholars who have analyzed that history are diverse. Economists, theorists of American political development, state-centered sociologists, labor and social historians, feminists, and others have probed its origins and development. Many of these students of the program have also been drawn into the political debate over the future of Social Security that has been waged in recent years.	1
Given the state of the literature, it is not easy for a scholar to contribute something fresh to the study of Social Security. Not surprisingly, what Daniel Béland offers in this volume is less a startlingly new intervention in the complex debates about this program, than a useful summary of both its history and the state of literature about that history.	. . .

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