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Contents

Abbreviations - xi

1. Introduction - 1
2. First Phase, Part One: Barriers to Policy Innovation - 19
3. First Phase, Part Two: Foreign Models, Domestic Disseminators - 29
4. Second Phase: Organizational Disincentives and the Dismal Years - 53
5. Third Phase: Universal Benefits, Universal Organizations - 75
6. Scope for Governmental Choice at a Point of Transition - 99
7. Phase Four in Britain - 117
8. Phase Four in Canada - 147
9. Phase Four in the United States - 171
10. Conclusion - 201

Bibliography - 225
Index - 235

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Explores the reciprocal relationship between public policy and special interest groups for the elderly