Budgeting Entitlements

The Politics of Food Stamps

By: Ronald F. King

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Hardcover | 3 September 2000

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272 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2 x 2.57

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As budgetary concerns have come to dominate Congressional action, the design and implementation of welfare programs have come under greater scrutiny. This book focuses on the food stamp program to examine how the growing integration of welfare and budgeting has affected both politics and people.

Applying insightful analysis to this important policy topic, Ronald F. King looks at the effects on welfare transfers of the kinds of budgetary rules adopted by Congress: discretion, entitlement, and expenditure caps. King uses models based on these forms to interpret the events in the history of the food stamp program up to the welfare reform of 1996, and he shows how these different budget rules have affected political strategies among key actors and policy outcomes.

King analyzes tensions in the program between budgetary concerns and entitlement, revealing that budget mechanisms which seek to cap the growth of entitlement spending have perverse but predictable effects. He also explores the broader conflict between procedural and substantive justice, which pits inclusive democratic decision-making against special protections for the needy and vulnerable in society.

The food stamp program offers a valuable opportunity for studying the influence of shifting institutional factors. In an era when budgetary anxieties coexist with continuing poverty, King''s book sheds new light on the increasing fiscalization of welfare in America.

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One of the best works so far in integrating budgeting into the general study of the American welfare state. American Politics A work of interest and usefulness not only to scholars of publc policy but to graduate and undergraduate college students and even to the general reader who wishes to know more about the inner workings of government policy. Social Service Review

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