Asymmetric Effects of Intergovernmental Grants
Analysis and Implications for U.S. Welfare Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7364618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Volden (0000-0003-0046-4510, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 51-73 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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.a030037 |
| OpenAlex | W2075749965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
Theories of federal grants to states and localities suggest that these grants have a stimulative effect on spending, causing recipient governments to expand and contract programs along with changes in the grants. However, policymakers may respond differently to grant decreases than to grant increases because they face political and bureaucratic pressures to expand programs. These asymmetric reactions may depend on specific political structures. Pooled time-series regressions of data from the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program across 46 states from 1965 to 1994 demonstrate state government responses to grant changes. Bureaucratic pressures and proposals lead states to expand their welfare benefits upon increases in federal grants, but not to contract them upon decreases in federal grants. With regard to the 1996 welfare reforms, this study indicates that the switch to block grants will lead to little or no state reduction in welfare payments
Aid to Families with Dependent Children · Block grant · Bureaucracy · Economics · Federalism · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Payment · Political science · Politics · Public economics · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare reform · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Finance
The changing federal grant structure and its potential effects on state and local community development efforts
Public policy in multi-level systems
Asymmetry in the fly-paper effect of the national subsidy in Korea
Does more federal environmental funding increase or decrease states' efforts
Presidential Prescriptions for State Policy
When Law Enforcement Pays
Local Fiscal Responses to Procyclical Changes in State Aid
Financial Incentives in Vertical Diffusion
Giving and Taking Away
Making the National Local
Intergovernmental Grants
Means, Motive, and Opportunity
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2022 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |