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Politics and the New American Welfare States

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  • Matthew C. Fellowes
  • Gretchen Rowe

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Federal law allows states to create new welfare policies determining who can receive welfare, what types of clients are exempted from new welfare work requirements, and the value of cash benefits. This project tests nine different theoretical explanations of welfare policy to explain why states have reacted differently to this new authority. We test these explanations on Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) policies promulgated between 1997 and 2000. Our findings confirm the strong role of race in TANF politics that Soss et al. (2001) recently reported, but we also find that other constituent characteristics, and institutions, paternalistic goals, and state resources have a consistent influence on welfare policy. These results indicate that different approaches to welfare are attributable to the unique, and very potent, combination of political characteristics in each state.

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  • Matthew C. Fellowes & Gretchen Rowe, 2004. "Politics and the New American Welfare States," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 48(2), pages 362-373, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:amposc:v:48:y:2004:i:2:p:362-373
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00075.x
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    1. Parolin, Zachary, 2019. "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Black-White Child Poverty Gap in the United States," OSF Preprints cv4wg, Center for Open Science.
    2. Jinwoo Kwon & Andrea Hetling, 2017. "Moving In and Out of Welfare and Work: The Influence of Regional Socioeconomic Circumstances on Economic Disconnection Among Low-Income Single Mothers," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 31(4), pages 326-341, November.
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    4. Jade Marcus Jenkins, 2014. "Early Childhood Development as Economic Development," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 28(2), pages 147-165, May.
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    6. Jamila Michener, 2022. "Race, power, and policy: understanding state anti-eviction policies during COVID-19 [Pandemic politics: Timing state-level social distancing responses to COVID-19]," Policy and Society, Darryl S. Jarvis and M. Ramesh, vol. 41(2), pages 231-246.
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    8. Faith Bradley & William D. Schreckhise & Daniel E. Chand, 2017. "Explaining States’ Responses to the REAL ID Act: the Role of Resources, Political Environment, and Implementor Attitudes in Complying with a Federal Mandate," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 8(3), pages 877-897, September.
    9. Lunder, Trond Erik, 2016. "Between centralized and decentralized welfare policy: Have national guidelines constrained the influence of local preferences?," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 1-13.
    10. William D. Schreckhise & Daniel E. Chand, 2023. "Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 56(4), pages 797-823, December.
    11. Jamila Michener, 2016. "Race, Poverty, and the Redistribution of Voting Rights," Poverty & Public Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(2), pages 106-128, June.
    12. Andreas Bernecker, 2014. "Divided We Reform? Evidence from US Welfare Policies," CESifo Working Paper Series 4564, CESifo.
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