This timely collection presents research contributing to the
ongoing debate over welfare reform in the 1990s, especially since
the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
of 1996. Some chapters argue that the law will lead states to
restrict benefits out of fear of becoming "welfare magnets." Other
chapters assert that no such shift is taking place. Still others
point to evidence that states are experimenting and serving as
"laboratories of democracy." And others suggest that none of these
positions captures the complexities of welfare reform. The work
behind several contributions supported arguments (on either side)
in a Supreme Court case about welfare argued in January 1999.
Contributors are professionals in government and political
science, sociology, social work, and public administration. They
are Sanford F. Schram, Samuel H. Beer, Mark Carl Rom, Paul E.
Peterson, Kenneth F. Scheve, Jr., Frances Fox Piven, Margaret Weir,
Scott W. Allard, Joe Soss, Irene Lurie, Thomas Vartanian, Jim
Baumohl, Richard P. Nathan, Thomas L. Gais, Karen A. Curtis,
Jocelyn M. Johnston, Kara Lindaman, Richard M. Francis, Saundra K.
Schneider, Barbara Gault, Heidi Hartmann, and Hsiao-Ye Yi.
Most chapters were prepared for a conference at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars and published as a special
edition of the journal "Publius." They have been supplemented by
two new chapters, a new introduction by Sanford F. Schram, and an
index.
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