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Spitzer, Scott. "Racial Politics in the Welfare Policies of the Reagan Presidency" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p63858_index.html>

Spitzer, S. , 2003-08-27 "Racial Politics in the Welfare Policies of the Reagan Presidency" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p63858_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Using papers from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, this paper argues that race was a silent but powerful element in the Reagan administration�s first efforts at reforming federal welfare policies. To provide empirical evidence of the importance of race, I begin by setting forth a theory of a racially defined structure in national welfare reform politics, consisting of partisan, policymaking subsystem, and issue definition dimensions. I argue that the linking of race and welfare in the 1960s produced this structure. The archival materials from the Reagan Presidential Library are then used to investigate the impact of this structure upon the Reagan administration�s welfare changes in the 1981Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA). Each dimension of the racially defined structure of welfare politics are examined as they apply to the Reagan case. The analysis finds that while much of this structure was relevant to understanding the OBRA 1981 welfare reforms, the Reagan administration�s success in 1981 reflected their subversion of the policymaking subsystem dimension. Moreover, because the Reagan strategy was intended to be clean of any racial content, it was difficult to definitively identify any racially motivated strategy in their policymaking. Nonetheless, the absence of race in the Reagan strategy produced a demonstrable racial political impact. The Reagan administration�s responses to criticism by African-Americans reveal the racial content implicit in their racially neutral approach to welfare reform.

Racial Politics and Welfare Policy: Policymaking Feedbacks from the 1960s in the Reagan Administration's Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981

Reagan, Race and Welfare: The Racial Structure of Welfare Politics in the 1980s