Who Killed Civil Society? - The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms (Husock Howard A.)(Pevná vazba)

Vexing social issues such as the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, and chronic unemployment are the target of social programs Americans fund with their tax dollars. Howard Husock argues that over the past century, the United States has lost sight of the more powerful antidote to these problems: positive social norms--a community's shared values which influence positive behaviors in the first place. According to Husock, government provides an appropriate financial safety net, but cannot effectively create healthy norms and character--nor should it try. Despite the rise of a massive social service state costing billions of dollars, communities in crisis have been harmed--not helped--by government's embrace. The social service state focuses on the "reformative" rather than the "formative," attempting to fix problems with programs rather than preventing them by modeling healthy
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