Charitable Choice
Bringing Religion Back into American Welfare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12178086 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley W Carlson-Thies (Center for Public Justice, corresponding author), Stanley Carlson-Thies |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-132 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Policy History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0898-0306 • E-ISSN: 1528-4190 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jph.2001.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W2044590494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 34 |
According to the most influential metanarratives in American social-policy history, religion has been virtually irrelevant to the development of American welfare in the twentieth century. In crude terms, the main story line is that public welfare replaced religion—for good. The chief alternative story agrees that religion was replaced—but for bad. More carefully, the mainstream story portrays a “quasi-welfare state” supplanting the fragmentary assistance offered by local sectarian, voluntary, and municipal programs, and measures welfare progress by the growth of government provision at the expense of private and religious action. The competing interpretation regards the creation of the government welfare system to constitute, in Marvin Olasky's terms, “the tragedy of American compassion,” because effective, personal, and spiritual assistance was replaced by bureaucratic programs unable to address the deepest needs of the poor. Although the two stories evaluate the outcome differently, they agree about the disappearance or irrelevance of religion to American public welfare
Bureaucracy · Compassion · Government (linguistics · Interpretation (philosophy · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Welfare · Welfare state · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
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“I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me”. The Role of Religion and Faith-Based Organizations in Refugee Accommodation
Agents, Armies, Allies
Charitable Choice
Pauvreté et politique sociale
E Pluribus … Pluribus ? Politics, Polarization, and Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism in the United States Today
Faith and Sex, Presidents Under Pressure
How Naked Is the Public Square? Religion, Public Service, and Implications for Public Administration
The Faith-Based Initiative in Comparative Perspective
How Do Faith-Based Organizations Compare to Secular Providers? Nonprofit Directors' and Poor Women's Assessments of FBOs
America’s Spiritual-Industrial Complex and the Policy of Revival in the Early Cold War
Which Congregations Will Take Advantage of Charitable Choice? Explaining the Pursuit of Public Funding by Congregations
Islamisation of Turkey under the AKP Rule
Social welfare
Mighty like a river
Welfare Realities
The emerging nonprofit sector
The newer deal
Losing ground
The naked public square
The new politics of poverty
In the shadow of the poorhouse
Partners in Public Service
The Ambiguous Embrace
Equal Treatment of Religion in a Pluralistic Society
The challenge of pluralism
Public Religions in the Modern World
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
Nonprofits for Hire
The Black Church in the African American Experience
Welfare Justice
Salvation in the Slums
A Christian America
A Christian America
The Modern Schism
| Citations per year | 0.65 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |