This paper describes welfare reform in Illinois by placing the policy reform efforts in a much broader context, and showing how the larger picture helps us understand the role of values in the state policymaking process. It delineates the consensus approach to public assistance developed in the...

African-Americans and Latinos make up about 60% of Chicago's population. This research looks at how these groups view local TV news coverage of their communities. A random telephone survey of 340 blacks and bilingual Latinos reveals that only 35% think their race or ethnic group is accurately...

Using data from the National Election Study (NES) surveys in the seven election years between 1984 and 1996, this paper examines stability and change in both the levels of support and the explanations for support of two social welfare programs--Social Security and Food Stamps. An explanatory...

This paper focuses on three questions: Why are nonprofit sectors expanding? What are the effects of this growth on other parts of the economy? What is the evidence of nonprofits' performance? It presents evidence of nonprofits' growth in many nations, and examines the effects of that growth on...

The role of business interests in fighting or supporting core New Deal social policy reforms of the 1930s remains a highly contested issue across the disciplines of history, sociology, and political science. Some argue that capitalists were entirely hostile and therefore simply ineffective in...

Recent analyses of the consequences of the economic restructur-ing of the1980s in the United States and Germany have paid little attention to the integration of young people into the labor force. However, it is at this point that private and public institutional actors have the greatest...

No problem has been thornier for state departments of mental health than what is commonly referred to as "linkage." Linkage is the process through which a person with a serious mental illness who has been discharged from a state mental hospital is connected to further care in the community. This...

It is commonly argued that wage-setting is everywhere becoming less centralized due to changes in production, occupational structure, and economic integration. In this paper we present new data on the extent to which wage-setting institutions have changed since 1950 in countries in the northern...

This paper uses PSID data on the extended family to test whether inter vivos transfers from parents to children are motivated by altruism. Specifically, the paper tests whether an increase by one dollar in the income of parents actively making transfers to a child coupled with a one dollar...

The financial health of nonprofit organizations depends on their ability to generate donations and to sell services profitably. Are these two sources of revenue - one philanthropic, the other commercial - interrelated? More particularly, does a change in donative revenue (e.g., a cut in...