Suchergebnisse

Budget balances, children's health, highways, state innovations, environmental policy, and other issues; US; 12 articles, including two respectively on Great Britain and Mexico.

Examines shift from national policy deliberations to the responses of states; welfare reform, privatization, health care reform, Hawaiian sovereignty, and other issues; 10 articles

Examines circumstances surrounding proposals to shift responsibility from Washington to state and local governments; US.

Abstract. The claim is analyzed that there is a Laffer‐type relationship between welfare spending and poverty. Conservative analysts in recent years have asserted that over the last several decades poverty declined with increased welfare spending up to a point, beyond which increases in spending produced increases in poverty. Measures of pre‐transfer and pre‐welfare poverty are used in order to account for poverty due to welfare dependency. Employing data for 1959‐1983, the authors find evidence which casts doubt on the validity of the hypothesis that there has been a Laffer‐type relationship between welfare spending and poverty.

"Disciplining the Poor" explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years-why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post-civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, the authors analyze diverse forms of data to explicate the racialized origins, operations, and consequences of a new mode of poverty governance that is simultaneously neoliberal-grounded in market principles-and paternalist-focused on telling the poor what is best for them. The study traces the process of rolling out the new regime from the federal level, to the state and county level, down to the differences in ways frontline case workers take disciplinary actions in individual cases. The result is a compelling account of how a neoliberal paternalist regime of poverty governance is disciplining the poor today.