Trapped in America's safety net: one family's struggle
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In: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
Some groups participate in politics more than others. Why? And does it matter for policy outcomes? In this richly detailed and fluidly written book, Andrea Campbell argues that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Through a case study of senior citizens in the United States and their political activity around Social Security, she shows how highly participatory groups get their policy preferences fulfilled, and how public policy itself helps create political inequality. Using a wealth of unique survey and historical data, Campbell shows how the de
In: Princeton studies in American politics : historical, international and comparative perspectives
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In: The American journal of sociology, Band 127, Heft 1, S. 252-254
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The Forum: a journal of applied research in contemporary politics, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 369-397
ISSN: 1540-8884
The watchword of the policy feedbacks approach to political analysis – that politics shapes policy – suggests that the way in which taxes are designed may influence how the public feels about various levies: their support for those taxes, their perceptions of fairness, and their willingness to pay them. Hypotheses about the design features of different taxes Americans pay, including tax regressivity or progressivity, the manner in which they are exacted, their actual and perceived costs, and the visibility and desirability of resulting benefits, are examined with closed- and open-ended survey data. Taxes with more attractive design features are generally more positively perceived by the public. Open-ended responses help explain the fairness perceptions and popularity of several taxes, including a widespread belief that estate taxes constitute "double taxation" and the considerable embrace of the notion that "everyone pays" state sales tax (as opposed to the federal income tax, where some rich and poor people "get away" without paying). These results help explain why some taxes invite more ire than others.
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 1043-1052
ISSN: 1541-0986
Intimate ethnography presents a number of challenges: How could I write about my own family in a way that was true to their experience but also an "objective" report? How could I convey telling details without robbing my family of their privacy? How could I rein in my emotions to report their story, and did I pick and choose facts to protect them or to make them more sympathetic? How could I generalize from their experience to that of millions of social assistance recipients? In this Reflections essay, I consider these challenges in light of what other social scientists have said about the issues of close work with individual, sometimes vulnerable, research subjects.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 120, Heft 6, S. 1857-1859
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 284-288
ISSN: 1537-5935
In: The Forum: a journal of applied research in contemporary politics, Band 13, Heft 1
ISSN: 1540-8884
AbstractA family tragedy enables a social policy scholar to examine how American social assistance works from the recipient perspective. The experience results in a reexamination of conventional wisdom around US social policy. In contrast to the revisionist account, meager social assistance programs are still pretty meager. Despite the bifurcation between deserving and undeserving beneficiaries, some deserving populations are swept into catch-all means-tested programs and fare badly. Finally, the experience forces a new look at research approaches to social policy. More qualitative and ethnographic work is needed, as well as examinations of the interactions among multiple programs and their complicated and often contradictory rules.
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 284-288
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 194-196
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 194-193
ISSN: 0033-362X
In: Annual review of political science, Band 15, S. 333-351
ISSN: 1545-1577
This review examines policy feedback effects among the mass public, with a focus on social policies in the United States and Europe. It shows that existing policies feed back into the political system, shaping subsequent policy outcomes. Policies exert this effect by altering not only the capacities, interests, and beliefs of political elites and states but also those of the public. Public policies can shape political participation and attitudes. These effects can be positive or negative, enhancing or undercutting participation and conferring positive or negative messages about individuals' worth as citizens. These effects originate in elements of program design, such as the size, visibility, and traceability of benefits, the proximity of beneficiaries, and modes of program administration. Thus, public policy itself shapes the distance of citizens from government, with profound implications for democratic governance. Adapted from the source document.
In: Foreign affairs, Band 91, Heft 5, S. 99-112
ISSN: 0015-7120
World Affairs Online
In: Foreign affairs, Band 91, Heft 5
ISSN: 0015-7120
Compared with other developed countries, the United States has very low taxes, little income redistribution, and an extraordinarily complex tax code. If it wanted to, the government could raise taxes without crippling growth or productivity. Tax reform is ultimately a political choice, not an economic one -- a statement about what sort of society Americans want. Adapted from the source document.