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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"welfare spending"”.
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An International Spatial Analysis of the Welfare Spending’s Influence on Measles Immunization
Background: Welfare policy may reflect political-economic contexts that have important implications for peoples’ lives, including their health. Previous research has explored how welfare policies influence health, but no research has explored how welfare spending influences health interventions. …
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Essays on the political economy of welfare and redistribution
… First, why do some countries have more generous welfare policies than others? Second, why do some people support welfare policies more than others? This collection of essays aims to answer these two questions, focusing on the political and economic determinants of welfare policy and attitudes. …
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An assessment of methods in "Assessing the impact of the size and scope of government on human well-being".
… that I no longer find a relationship between welfare spending and satisfaction. I conclude that further research should be done on the effect of more specific government policies on satisfaction, with the use of the more robust methods described in this paper.
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Family Cap Programs: The Future of Pennsylvania Welfare Reform
Welfare reform has been a highly debated topic since before the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) and continues to be at the forefront of many policy makers' agendas. Although significant positive changes have occurred in welfare policy since PRWORA's …
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Economic Inequality Through a Contextual Lens: Spatial Variation in Beliefs, Opinion, and Policy Support
… Metropolitan Urbanicity and Support for Social Welfare Spending,” examines the association between metropolitan urbanicity and attitudes toward government welfare provision. In the second chapter, “Do Voters Respond to Local Economic Conditions? Examining Support for Raising the State Minimum …
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Mass Media and the Domestic Politics of Economic Globalization
… Globalization," argues that the mass media make welfare spending less responsive to domestic groups harmed by economic globalization. Statistical tests on state-level economic data as well as individual-level survey data are found to be consistent with this theory. The second article, "Media …
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States Of Inequality: Government Partisanship, Public Policies, And Income Disparity In The American States, 1970-2005
… sector employment, minimum wages, and public welfare spending. My results for the former two policies suggest that the parties in state governments shape the distribution of income even before making adjustments with income taxes and transfers; however, those for the latter point to the …
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Political branding in Botswana and Malawi: electoral competition and the welfare agenda, 1994-2014
… Africa, these governments did little to expand welfare spending beyond what colonial administrations had provided. Endemic poverty, however, has forced ruling-party governments to change tack as opposition parties in more recent years have emerged to challenge their leadership. In two such …