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The issue of welfare reform has been predominant on the United States public agenda for almost three decades. Major initiatives undertaken in welfare reform since 1992 are examined in this book, with specific case studies on California, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Each study focuses on: factors that motivated reform; the political process that led to its adoption; the objectives sought by the reform; and an assessment of the probability that each would achieve its objective. Introductory and concluding chapters analyze national trends in welfare reform.
Sommario
Introduction - Lyke Thompson and Donald F Norris
The Politics of Welfare Reform
Welfare Reform in Wisconsin - Thomas J Corbett
The Rhetoric and Reality
California - Robert J Waste
From Workfare for the Poor to Warfare on the Poor
The Death of General Assistance in Michigan - Lyke Thompson
New Jersey¿s $64 Question - Ted George Goertzl and John Hart
Legislative Entrepreneurship and the Family Cap
Primordial Policy Soup, Bureaucratic Politics and Welfare Policy-Making in Maryland - Donald F Norris and James X Bembry
Ohio - Richard G Sheridan
Politics and Welfare Reform Don¿t Mix
Findings and Lessons from the Politics of Welfare Reform - Donald F Norris and Lyke Thompson
Riassunto
The issue of welfare reform has been predominant on the United States public agenda for almost three decades. Major initiatives undertaken in welfare reform since 1992 are examined in this book, with specific case studies on California, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio and Wisconsin. Each study focuses on: factors that motivated reform; the political process that led to its adoption; the objectives sought by the reform; and an assessment of the probability that each would achieve its objective. Introductory and concluding chapters analyze national trends in welfare reform.
