Voices of welfare reform: Bureaucratic rationality versus the perceptions of welfare participants

Ann Rachel Tickamyer; Debra A. Henderson; Julie Anne White; Barry L. Tadlock

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Voices of welfare reform: Bureaucratic rationality versus the perceptions of welfare participants

Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Debra A. Henderson, Julie Anne White, Barry L. Tadlock

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This article compares the assumptions of welfare reform with the way the program is actually implemented to show the underlying contradictions in the way policy is politically justified and implemented. The results of focus group discussions with women on welfare in four rural Appalachian Ohio counties demonstrate the disparities between the top-down goals of welfare policy and the bottom-up perceptions of their outcomes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	173-192
Number of pages	20
Journal	Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/08861090022093921
State	Published - Jan 1 2000

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Gender Studies
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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