{"product_id":"the-gi-bill","title":"The G.I. Bill","description":"\u003cp\u003eScholars 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984480661557,"sku":"ByrdShop_110740293X","price":49.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781107402935.jpg?v=1770834655","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-gi-bill","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}