Still Hungry After All These Years

?. . . Still Hungry After All These Years is a readable, interesting, and comprehensive investigation of food policy changes over a long time. Because of its emphasis on political context, its relevance is not only to food assistance policy; the book can be used to explore broad forces that influenced many social policy developments of the era. It is an excellent and important study.?-Political Science Quarterly ?Maney attempts to examine a particular policy area in order to shed light on the political/bureaucratic policy-making and implementation mechanisms in the US. In this respect, it is similar to a number of other works, for example, M. Morris and J. Williamson's Poverty and Public Policy or A.L. Fritschler's Smoking and Politics. When compared to such books, this work breaks no new ground or adds substantially to the literature. However, the book makes a major contribution in its discussion of government food assistance policy from its inception through Reagan. Maney has not written a polemic, but a carefully documented and well-reasoned analysis of the motivations and consequences of these policies. She has carefully avoided political blame or partisanism in her criticism of food assistance programs. Recommended for all libraries and for all those interested in social welfare policies in the US.?-Choice ?Maney has made a useful contribution by giving us a full history of the food program during the 1960s and by providing a case study of how a particular set of Great Society programs was shaped by the political and ideological cross-currents of that turbulent decade....?-APA Journal . . . Still Hungry After All These Years is a readable, interesting, and comprehensive investigation of food policy changes over a long time. Because of its emphasis on political context, its relevance is not only to food assistance policy; the book can be used to explore broad forces that influenced many social policy developments of the era. It is an excellent and important study. -Political Science Quarterly Maney has made a useful contribution by giving us a full history of the food program during the 1960s and by providing a case study of how a particular set of Great Society programs was shaped by the political and ideological cross-currents of that turbulent decade.... -APA Journal Maney attempts to examine a particular policy area in order to shed light on the political/bureaucratic policy-making and implementation mechanisms in the US. In this respect, it is similar to a number of other works, for example, M. Morris and J. Williamson's Poverty and Public Policy or A.L. Fritschler's Smoking and Politics. When compared to such books, this work breaks no new ground or adds substantially to the literature. However, the book makes a major contribution in its discussion of government food assistance policy from its inception through Reagan. Maney has not written a polemic, but a carefully documented and well-reasoned analysis of the motivations and consequences of these policies. She has carefully avoided political blame or partisanism in her criticism of food assistance programs. Recommended for all libraries and for all those interested in social welfare policies in the US. -Choice