Program Redesign by States in the Wake of Welfare Reform: Making Sense of the Effects of Devolution

Alan Weil

JCPR Working Papers from Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research

Abstract: Devolution of authority over social programs creates a particular challenge for those attempting to assess the effects of this shift in the structure of American federalism. While the increased diversity among state policies may provide fertile ground for exploring the effects of individual policy interventions, that diversity does little to shed light on the broader question of the effects of devolution itself.

Assessing the New Federalism, as the Urban Institute has set out to do in a project by the same name, must call upon methods other than those used for program evaluation. This paper examines three reasons for state policy variation under devolution. It describes how each of these sources of variation can be analyzed to describe the effects of devolution. It then explores the uses and limitations of a typology of state responses to welfare reform. Finally, it looks at the longer term possibilities for understanding devolution.

Date: 1999-08-01
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