Inside the 'Smoke-Filled Room
Neoliberal Devolution and the Politics of Workfare in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 4792804 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Mark H Harvey, Mark Harvey (0000-0001-9901-9921, Florida Atlantic University, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 641-662 |
| Data de publicação | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01148.x |
| OpenAlex | W2131782540 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 2 |
| Referências citadas | 32 |
The 1996 welfare reform act devolved authority over 'workfare' to the states and allowed them to further devolve control to local and regional entities, yet little is known about how such 'second-order' devolution affected implementation and outcomes. This article applies urban regime theory and the comparative case study method to analyze the impacts of the 'paradigmatically neoliberal' model of second-order devolution implemented in Texas. Pursuing a labor market-based approach, Texas devolved authority for workfare to regional - i.e. multi-county - Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs) directed, in theory, by private sector employers. The findings indicate, however, that the WIBs functioned as patronage-oriented 'employment regimes' dominated by local elected officials and 'machine-politics community based organizations'. The outcome was a socially and spatially regressive transfer of federal resources from needy families in the most distressed counties to regime actors and organizations in more politically-institutionally powerful counties. This left families in the politically weak case study counties subject to the state's diversionary 'workfirst' program without access to crucially necessary childcare and transportation assistance. The study extends our understanding of how neoliberal workfare exacerbates inequality at the sub-state level through a regionally constituted form of political-institutional exclusion.RésuméLa loi américaine de 1996 sur la réforme de la protection sociale a délégué aux États les allocations conditionnelles liées à l'emploi, et leur a permis d'en déléguer la maîtrise à des organismes locaux et régionaux, mais on connait mal l'incidence de cette 'délégation de second ordre' sur la mise en œuvre et les résultats. Appliquant la théorie des régimes urbains et la méthodologie des études de cas comparatives, cette analyse examine les impacts du modèle 'typiquement néolibéral' de la délégation de second ordre utilisé au Texas. Privilégiant une approche de marché du travail, le Texas a transféré sa compétence en matière d'allocations conditionnelles aux comités régionaux WIB(Workforce Investment Boards), couvrant plusieurs comtés et censés être dirigés par des patrons d'entreprises privées. Les WIB ont cependant opéré comme des 'régimes d'emploi' clientélistes régis par des élus locaux et des 'organismes issus de la machine politique et attachés à une communauté'. Sur les plans social et spatial, il en a résulté un transfert régressif des ressources fédérales, des familles nécessiteuses des comtés les plus dépourvus vers les acteurs et organismes du système implantés dans les comtés à la stature politico-institutionnelle plus puissante. Dans les comtés politiquement faibles, les familles ont été détournées vers le programme de l'État,Workfirst, sans accès aux services indispensables de transport et de soins aux enfants. L'étude permet de mieux comprendre comment les allocations conditionnelles exacerbent l'inégalité au niveau infra-étatique par une forme régionale d'exclusion politico-institutionnelle
Political science · Politics · Sociology · Welfare · Workfare · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
Making Ends Meet
Politics and jobs
Regulating the poor
Place Matters
Worlds Apart
Both Hands Tied
Spaces of Neoliberalism
How Management Matters
Ethnography unbound
Government Matters
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
Neo-liberal poverty governance
Welfare Reform and Household Survival
Changing The “Culture” Of Welfare Offices
Welfare Policymaking in the States
Devolution, Discretion, and the Effect of Local Political Values on Tanf Sanctioning
The Road to Poverty
Friends or Foes? Nonprofits and the Puzzle of Welfare Reform
The Functions and Reproduction of Migrant Labor
The Urban Politics of Workfare
To Devolve or Not To Devolve? Welfare Reform in the States
Administrative Exclusion
The Color of Welfare
Life after Welfare
Privatizing the Welfare State
Poorest of Americans
Race-Ing the Bootstrap Climb
Neighborhood Institutions as Resource Brokers
The Agency of Welfare Workers
| Obras citantes distintas | 2 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,18 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 2 |