The welfare experiments : politics and policy evaluation / Robin H. Rogers-Dillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers-Dillon, Robin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

United States--Social policy--1993-.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law and Politics, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Welfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical—and unexpected—role in the broader policymaking process. Through these experiments, previously unpopular reform ideas, such as welfare time limits, gained wide and enthusiastic support. Ultimately, the institutional legacy of the old welfare system was broken, new ideas took hold, and the welfare experiments generated a new institutional channel in policymaking. In this book, Rogers-Dillon argues that these welfare experiments were not simply scientific experiments, as their supporters frequently contend, but a powerful political tool that created a framework within which few could argue successfully against the welfare policy changes. Legislation proposed in 2002 formalized this channel of policymaking, permitting the executive, as opposed to legislative, branches of federal and state governments to renegotiate social policies—an unprecedented change in American policymaking. This book provides unique insight into how social policy is made in the United States, and how that process is changing.

Contents:

The politics of pilot programs

Hope and an experimental design

The history of AFDC

Florida's family transition program

Street-level policymaking

Revolution in the states

The rhetoric and institutional politics of policy experiments

Afterword : "superwaivers".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-241) and index.

ISBN:

9780804767033

0804767033

9781417580453

1417580453

OCLC:

58425630