Volume 116 - Number 4 - Winter 2001-02
Ending Welfare As We Know It: A Reform Still in Progress Demetrios James Caraley summarizes the political and social dynamics that brought about the repeal of Aid to Families of Dependent Children (AFDC) and analyzes the effects of the new Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program over its first four years. He considers possibilities for further changes in cash assistance for poor families during the program’s necessary reauthorization in 2002.
Volume 116 - Number 3 - Fall 2001
Rethinking Media Politics and Public Opinion: Reactions to the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal Regina G. Lawrence and W. Lance Bennett offer an alternative interpretation of public opinion during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Rejecting the “prosperity” explanation, they explore four dimensions of public reactions to the Clinton impeachment that are not well explained by simpler models.
Volume 114 - Number 4 - Winter 1999-00
The Paradox of Clinton Winning and the Presidency Losing Richard M. Pious describes a paradoxical outcome of the Clinton impeachment: the president staved off personal catastrophe and inflicted political damage on his opponents, but did so at the expense of the institutional protections of testimonial privilege, a result that will be damaging to the presidential office in the future.
Volume 114 - Number 3 - Fall 1999
Welfare Reform: Block Grants, Expenditure Caps, and the Paradox of the Food Stamp Program Ronald F. King examines the connection between welfare policy and budget policy, analyzing block grants as a complex form of fiscal constraint. He shows why the food stamp program ultimately was not transformed into a block grant as part of the 1996 welfare reform, and he argues that the tension between entitlement protection and spending control has not yet been resolved.
Volume 113 - Number 4 - Winter 1998-99
The Escalation of U.S. Immigration Control in the Post-NAFTA Era Peter Andreas examines the rapid escalation of U.S. immigration control efforts along our southwest border in recent years. He argues that enhanced border policing has less to do with actual deterrence and more to do with projecting an image of order and coping with the deepening contradictions of economic integration.
Volume 111 - Number 3 - Fall 1996
Growing Income Inequalities in America?: A Review Essay Hugh Heclo
Volume 111 - Number 2 - Summer 1996
Dismantling the Federal Safety Net: Fictions Versus Realities Demetrios Caraley shows that arguments for dismantling the federal social safety net and devolving parts of it to the states have been based on six major claims about reality, but that five of those claims are fictional and the sixth only partially true. Nevertheless, he concludes that the forces for dismantling the safety net and for cutting the federal government's revenues to make it constantly broke have formidable staying power and may eventually succeed in weakening the federal government as an effective instrument of governance.
Volume 109 - Number 3 - Conference Issue: Presidential and Parliamentary Democracies: Which Work Be
American Presidential Democracy: Discussion Demetrios Caraley
Volume 107 - Number 1 - Spring 1992
Washington Abandons the Cities Demetrios Caraley examines the Reagan and Bush administrations' cutting back of federal grants to large cities and people who live there. He concludes pessimistically that without strong economic growth, the American democracy has little capacity to deal with serious problems felt by minorities such as those who govern and who live in large cities.
Volume 61 - Number 4 - December 1946
The Responsibility of Administrative Officials in a Democratic Society David M. Levitan
