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Mead, Lawrence. "Welfare Politics in Congress" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40883_index.html>

Mead, L. M. , 2005-09-01 "Welfare Politics in Congress" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40883_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In the 1990s, the national radically reformed family welfare. This study analyzes the Congressional politics behind the welfare revolution. We are coding speakers in Congressional hearings and floor debates during six episodes of welfare reform from 1962 through 1996. We ask how the witnesses frame the agenda in the sense of the dominant issue, and what position they take on those issues. We posit four such issues, and we track how the relative emphasis on them changes over time. We use the results to test three theories of why welfare was transformed —a partisan shift against big government, the public’s insistence on work tests, and elite influence. Through 1988 (five episodes), the hearings reveal a shift away from ideological combat over the scale of government toward a cooler, more practical debate about how best to arrange welfare reform programs. Less dramatically, opinion also shifts to the right on these issues. Of the three theories of welfare reform politics, elitism appears strongest.

Legitimating Social Welfare Policies Through Work? A Comparison of Old Age Insurance and the Works Progress Administration, 1935-1950

THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC POLICY CHANGES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: DOMESTIC ELITES' IDEAS AND THE SHIFT TO NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIC REFORMS IN KENYA (1995-2008).