Postwelfare Massachusetts

Jamie Peck

Economic Geography, 1998, vol. 74, issue 0, 62-82

Abstract: By way of a critical analysis of welfare reform initiatives in Massachusetts, the paper explores the complex interplay between federal- and state-level factors in welfare policy discourse and practice. I argue that, despite being represented as both home-grown and innovative, the recent package of reforms in Massachusetts is neither. Rather, it is the outcome of a self-inflicted hollowing out of the nation-state, coupled with a dramatic increase in federally orchestrated policy transfers between states, themselves anxious to appear active in the welfare reform process. The apparent consensus on work-based welfare reform is more a symptom of this structural context than it is an outcome of ideas that work at the local level. As a result, the postwelfare settlement in Massachusetts is an unstable one.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.1998.tb00031.x

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