Book chapter
Race/Ethnicity and Referenda on Redistributive Health Care Policy
Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform, pp.279-297
University of Michigan Press
2003
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11932.14
Abstract
As the preceding chapters have shown, racial and ethnic diversity has played a significant role in shaping welfare policy outcomes. Despite the importance of this research, the existing literature is limited in two important ways. First, past research on race and welfare policy has focused almost exclusively on a cash assistance program—Aid to Families with Dependent Children (now Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Based on the individual-level evidence (Gilens 1999; Peffley and Hurwitz 1998), we might expect whites to view the targets of any redistributive policy—not just cash assistance—as less deserving if they are minority (black or
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Race/Ethnicity and Referenda on Redistributive Health Care Policy
- Creators
- Caroline J TolbertGertrude A Steuernagel
- Contributors
- Sanford F. Schram (Editor)Joe Soss (Editor)Richard C. Fording (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform, pp.279-297
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- DOI
- 10.3998/mpub.11932.14
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2003
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983988970402771
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