The G.I. Bill
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Scholars have argued about U.S. state development in particular its laggard social policy and weak institutional capacity for generations. Neo-institutionalism has informed and enriched these debates but as yet no scholar has reckoned with a very successful and sweeping social policy designed by the federal government: the Servicemens Readjustment Act of 1944 more popularly known as the GI Bill. Kathleen J. Frydl addresses the GI Bill in the first study based on systematic and comprehensive use of the records of the Veterans Administration. Frydls research situates the Bill squarely in debates about institutional development social policy and citizenship and political legitimacy. It demonstrates the multiple ways in which the GI Bill advanced federal power and social policy and at the very same time limited its extent and its effects.
