Lessons of Welfare: Policy Design, Political Learning, and Political Action

Soss, Joe

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Lessons of Welfare: Policy Design, Political Learning, and Political Action

Soss, Joe·1999·American Political Science Review

DOI 10.2307/2585401

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This article explores the links between welfare participation and broader forms of political involvement. Adopting a political learning perspective, I present evidence that policy designs structure clients' program experiences in ways that teach alternative lessons about the nature of government. Through their experiences under a given policy design, welfare clients develop program-specific beliefs about the wisdom and efficacy of asserting themselves. Because clients interpret their experiences with welfare bureaucracies as evidence of how government works more generally, beliefs about the welfare agency and client involvement become the basis for broader political orientations. I conclude that the views of government that citizens develop through program participation help explain broader patterns of political action and quiescence.

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Means-tested programs are more burdensome than a universal program designed to be accessible to nearly everyone, because of their inherent need to verify eligibility.
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Authors: Soss, J.
Affiliations: American University (US)
Corresponding author: Soss, Joe
ORCID: Soss, Joe
Venue: American Political Science Review
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published: 1999-06
Volume: 93
Issue: 2
Pages: 363-380
ISSN: 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
1537-5943
DOI: 10.2307/2585401
OpenAlex: W2052125222
Cited by: 815
References: 70
Citations by year: 2026: 43 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 55 · 2022: 60 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 77 · 2019: 66 · 2018: 41 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 43 · 2014: 33 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 23
FWCI: 24.32
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 5540 d)
Locations: American Political Science Review (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Policy and Reform Studies
Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
Keywords: welfare participation, political learning, welfare clients, political participation, political action, client participation, welfare bureaucracy, political orientation

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