Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1996
ISSN
0044-0094
Publisher
Yale Law Journal Co.
Language
en-US
Abstract
This is a review of Steven M. Teles's book, Whose Welfare? AFDC and Elite Politics (University Press of Kansas, 1996), which argues that welfare policy reflects a dynamic of elite dissensus, in which public policy fails to reflect popular opinion. I make two central points in the review: first, there are reasons to believe that welfare policy does, in fact, reflect a deeply conflicted American electorate; and second, such a conflict may reveal a healthy deliberative order struggling to reconcile changing priorities with enduring values.
Recommended Citation
Robert L. Tsai,
The System Worked: Our Schizophrenic Stance on Welfare
,
in
106
Yale Law Journal
929
(1996).
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