Looking Inward, Looking Outward
The Politics of State Welfare Innovation under Devolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert C Lieberman (0000-0002-9677-8946, Columbia University), Greg M Shaw (Illinois Wesleyan University) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-240 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591290005300201 |
| OpenAlex | W2075861692 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 39 |
Theories of federalism supporting the devolution of welfare policy to the states suggest that the removal of national policy controls will allow states to tailor-make welfare policy to fit local needs and preferences. These theories predict that state policymaking under devolution will respond mostly to state-specific factors. Alternative theories of federalism suggest that devolution will increasingly expose states to national and interstate pressure, and that state policymaking will follow primarily national factors. We use data on AFDC waivers granted to states from 1977 through the end of the program in 1996 to test these competing approaches. National factors tend to be more important than state-spcific factors in shaping state welfare innovation, supporting competitive theories of federalism, although welfare innovation, unlike benefit levels, does not seem to be susceptible to the “welfare magnet” phenomenon
Cooperative federalism · Decentralization · Devolution (biology · Economics · Federalism · fiscal federalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Sociology · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
Rewarding Successes Discourages Experimentation
Race and the politics of welfare reform
The Polls—Trends
Policy, Planning, and People
The Polls—Trends
Analyzing the Poverty Reduction Effectiveness of the Canadian Provinces
A Starting Foul in the Study of the Race to the Bottom
Immigrant Exclusion from Welfare
Governance transitions’ and minority nationalist parties’ pressure for welfare state change
Articles Originally Presented at the Eiss Conference on Federalism and Subsidiarity in Social Security in Rome, September 2004
Welfare reform's impact on caseload decline in the United States
Has the fiscal decentralization of social welfare programs helped effectively reduce poverty across U.S. states
Waiving Goodbye to Congressional Constraints
Immigrants' Tanf Eligibility, 1996–2003
A Latent Growth Curve Model of Nonmarital Births, Abortions, and Pregnancies
Unequal Positions
Federal Welfare Time-Limit Extensions and Exemptions
National Intervention and the Diffusion of Policy Innovations
Information Exchange and Policy Adoption Decisions in the Context of U.S. State Energy Policy
Effects of U.S. States' Social Welfare Systems on Population Health
Examining the contemporary challenges of ‘sub‐state’ welfare development
It’s Not Just Welfare
The Urban Politics of Workfare
Reassessing the “Race to the Bottom” in State Welfare Policy
Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research
Policy Dynamics in Federal Systems
Measuring State and District Ideology with Spatial Realignment
Child Poverty in the American States
The Impact of Temporary Immigrant Workforce Growth on Employee Verification Policies in the United States
State Political Culture and Welfare Reform
Competitive Pressures and the Emergence of Mothers’ Aid Programs in the United States
Decentralization, Devolution, Financial Shortfalls, and State Priorities in Service Programs in the Early 2000s
Balancing sub-unit autonomy and collective problem-solving by varyingexitandvoice. An analytical framework
The Color of Devolution
Politics and the New American Welfare States
Policy Innovation or Vertical Integration? A View of Immigration Federalism from the States
Research and Welfare Reform
Local Governance and Redistributive Policy
State Welfare Options
State Poverty Rates
Southern politics in State and Nation
Between the lines
Losing ground
Welfare Magnets
Why Americans Hate Welfare
City Limits
Politics in the American States
Bringing the State Back In
In the shadow of the poorhouse
Shifting the Color Line
Dismantling the Welfare State?
Laboratories of democracy
In the Laboratories of Democracy
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
American State Politics
The New Federalism
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
Inter-Party Competition, Economic Variables, and Welfare Policies in the American States
When Effect Becomes Cause
Welfare Magnets” and Benefit Decline
Interstate Competition and Welfare Policy
Measuring Citizen and Government Ideology in the American States, 1960-93
Without Cause or Effect
American Federalism, Race and the Administration of Welfare
The Rise and Fall of Special Interest Politics
Innovation in the States
State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations
Competition, Constituencies, and Welfare Policies in American States
Women's Associations and the Enactment of Mothers' Pensions in the United States
The Diffusion of Innovations among the American States
Party Cleavages and Welfare Effort in the American States
Runaway Train? The Diffusion of State-Level Reform in ADC/AFDC Eligibility Requirements, 1950-1967
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |