Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems
Book by Barbara J. Nelson
In this absorbing story of how child abuse grew from a small, private-sector charity concern into a multimillion-dollar social welfare issue, Barbara Nelson provides important new perspectives on the process of public agenda setting. ... Google Books
Originally published: 1984
Author: Barbara J. Nelson
Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the ...
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Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the ...
Nelson has written an insightful account of the emergence of child abuse as a social issue, primarily concentrating on the history of federal efforts to address ...
Making an Issue of Child Abuse is Barbara J. Nelson's fascinating and ultimately disquieting account of the emergence of child abuse as a public policy issue in ...
Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems. By Barbara J. Nelson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Barbara Nelson traces the movement of child abuse onto the public agenda through institutional case studies of the Children's Bureau, the media, state ...
Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problems. By Barbara J. Nelson. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 1984. 169 pp.
The small size of the book is somewhat deceptive. This history of child abuse as both a social and a policy problem is set out in considerable detail. In fact, ...
Nelson examines prevailing theories about agenda setting and introduces a new conceptual framework for understanding how a social issue becomes part of the ...
Feb 5, 2020 · Making an issue of child abuse : political agenda setting for social problems. by: Nelson, Barbara J., 1949-. Publication date: 1984. Topics ...