Joel F Handler

"Winner of the 1997 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association" Joel F. Handler is Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of The Poverty of Welfare Reform and of Law and the Search for Community. Throughout the world, politicians are dismantling state enterprises and heaping praise on private markets, while in the United States a new rhetoric of "citizen empowerment"...