Faith-based initiatives and the Bush administration : the good, the bad, and the ugly

In this textbook noted scholars Jo Renee Formicola and Mary C.

Segers analyze the administration's initiative from three distinct dimensions.

They begin by reviewing the administration's intent and the policy's potential to create a viable, legal accommodation between church and state on matters of social justice.

Next, the authors look at the constitutional hazards and havoc that such a program would likely create.

Finally, they examine the politics of implementing these faith-based initiatives among those groups trying to enact and oppose such a strategic change in American public policy.