The remarkable quango: Knowledge, politics, and walfare reform

Peter L. Szanton
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Peter L. Szanton: Associate director of OMB, heads Szanton Associates, a Washington-based consulting firm, Postal: Associate director of OMB, heads Szanton Associates, a Washington-based consulting firm

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1991, vol. 10, issue 4, 590-602

Abstract: This paper describes the passage of the Family Support Act of 1988 (FSA), focusing on the politics of welfare reform. It considers especially the role played by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation's assessments of experimental state programs designed to move welfare recipients out of dependency. The paper argues that those assessments were pivotal to the passage of FSA and that they demonstrate the growing potential power of policy research. It also argues that achieving that potential required conditions not often found together: timely and clearly relevant findings based on convincing research methods employed by an organization regarded as impartial, and the lucid and persistent presentation of those findings in many forms and at many forums.

Date: 1991
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