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bootstrap theory  

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  • Bootstrap theory refers to social practices and laws dedicated to helping people help themselves; these practices range from the Puerto Rican industrialization project titled “Operation Bootstrap” in the mid-20th century to U.S. ideology and social policy in the post-welfare reform state. Bootstrap theory was first intimated in an official policy called Operation Bootstrap (Operation Manos a la Obra), an ambitious project to industrialize Puerto Rico in 1948. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Bootstrap Theory]

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