26 February 2013

Time: 6:30pm
Venue: David Sizer Lecture Theatre, Bancroft building, Mile End Campus

Demanding More, Trusting Less: Understanding the Political Reaction to Hurricane Katrina

Dr Gareth Davies, University of Oxford

Dr Gareth Davies has worked mainly on the politics of social policy in the United States during the twentieth century, and on how government grows in an anti-statist political culture. He has published on the political crisis of the United States during the 1960s; on the emergence of conservatism since that time; on the institutional and policy legacy of the Great Society; on education politics; on Ronald Reagan’s welfare policies; and on the foundation of the New Deal welfare state.

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