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How Democracies Prevail: Democratic Resilience as a Two-Stage Process

Boese, Vanessa A.; Edgell, Amanda B.; Hellmeier, Sebastian; Maerz, Seraphine F.; Lindber, Staffan I. (2021)

This article introduces a novel conceptualization of democratic resilience - a two-stage process where democracies avoid democratic declines altogether or avert democratic breakdown given that such autocratization is ...
An Annual Cost of Living Index for the American States, 1960-1995

Berry, William D.; Fording, Richard C.; Hanson, Russell L. (2000)

An enormous amount of research on state politics and policy relies on monetary variables. Such variables are affected by differences in the purchasing power of a dollar over time and across states, but a lack of information ...
Reassessing the “Race to the Bottom” in State Welfare Policy

Berry, William D.; Fording, Richard C.; Hanson, Russell L. (2003)

On the assumption that poor people migrate to obtain better welfare benefits, the magnet hypothesis predicts that a state’s poverty rate increases when its welfare benefit rises faster than benefits in surrounding states. ...
Politics and State Punitiveness in Black and White

Yates, Jeff; Fording, Richard C. (2005)

Recent findings from the literature on imprisonment policy suggest that in addition to traditional social and economic variables, imprisonment rates are also strongly related to changes in the state political environment. ...
Devolution, Discretion, and the Effect of Local Political Values on TANF Sanctioning

Fording, Richard C.; Soss, Joe; Schram, Sanford F. (2007)

One of welfare reform’s most significant consequences is the devolution of policy-making authority from the federal government and states to local governments and frontline workers. What is perhaps less often appreciated ...
Race and the Local Politics of Punishment in the New World of Welfare

Fording, Richard C.; Soss, Joe; Schram, Sanford F. (2011)

To illuminate how race affects the usage of punitive tools in policy implementation settings, we analyze sanctions imposed for noncompliant client behavior under welfare reform. Drawing on a model of racial classification ...
Do Welfare Sanctions Help or Hurt the Poor? Estimating the Causal Effect of Sanctioning on Client Earnings

Fording, Richard C.; Schram, Sanford F.; Soss, Joe (2013)

This article examines the effect of financial sanctions for noncompliance on the earnings of TANF clients. Current research on TANF sanctioning is descriptive, and few studies estimate the effect of sanctions on client ...
The Affordable Care Act and the Diffusion of Policy Feedback: The Case of Medicaid Work Requirements

Fording, Richard C.; Patton, Dana (2020)

Over the last five years, many states have sought to limit access to Medicaid by adopting restrictive policies. How can we reconcile this development with studies that imply that Medicaid should be insulated from policy ...

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