Impacts of Intergovernmental Financial Incentives on State Welfare Policymaking and Interstate Equity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6375565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert B Albritton |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-142 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Publius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037777 |
| OpenAlex | W2325514635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Welfare policy in the United States is strongly influenced by intergovernmental factors. This analysis traces the effects of federal financial incentives on state welfare policy decisions across programs and examines how changes in federal incentives affect state policy choices over time. The data indicate that higher levels of federal participation are associated with substantial reductions in variance of welfare grants among the states and with higher levels of interstate equity. These findings imply that significant shifts in welfare outputs would result from a devolution of responsibility for welfare to the states
Business · Devolution (biology · Economics · Equity (law · Incentive · Market economy · Political science · Public economics · Variance (accounting · Welfare · Welfare reform · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Accounting
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Deservingness, Discretion, and the State Politics of Welfare Spending, 1990-96
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Without Cause or Effect
Resources Rather than Needs
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2019 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |