According to conventional wisdom, American social policy has always been exceptional - staggeringly exceptional. But Edwin Aminta reminds us that 60 years ago, the United States led the world in spending on social services.

Combines history and political theory to account for this sudden fact - and to explain why the country's leading role was short-lived. The traditional view is that American social policy began in the 1930s as a two-track system of miserable "welfare" of the "unemployed" social welfare of the elderly.

However, Amenta shows that the New Deal program was indeed a bold relief program committed to providing employment and income support for the unemployed. Social security, by comparison, was a subsequent policy. By the late 1930s, he showed that the United States had pledged to increase its GNP to relief programs more than any other major industrialized country.

Amenta develops and uses an institutional policy theory to explain how the expansion of social policy was driven by North Democrats, state reformers, and foreign politicians. Austerity in the 1940s appears to have been led by politicians from areas where aid recipients were prevented from voting.

He also explains why some programs have been nationalized, why some countries have "few new deals" and how Britain, which resembles the United States, has adopted more generous social programs. Bold Relief will transform our understanding of the roots of American social policy and the institutional and political dynamics that will shape its future..

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