Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Author "Soss, Joe"

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The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control

Soss, Joe; Fording, Richard; Schram, Sanford F. (2006)

Through analysis of state-level policy decisions, the authors show how modest but consistent racial effects on policy choices combine to produce large disparities in welfare and criminal justice policies encountered ...
The Political Roots of Disability Claims: How State Environments and Policies Shape Citizen Demands

Soss, Joe; Keiser, Lael R. (2005)

By examining a model of welfare demand in the Social Security Disability Insurance and the Supplemental Security Income programs, the authors test the hypothesis that state environments shape aggregate rates of welfare ...
A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback

Soss, Joe; Schram, Sanford F. (2006)

While welfare reform in the 1990s made welfare less salient as a public issue, the authors show that it did little to change the public's willingness to spend on anti-poverty efforts or to support the Democratic Party. ...