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The Effects Of Welfare And Ida Program Rules On The Asset Holding Of Low-Income Families, Signe-Mary Mckernan, Caroline Ratcliff, Yunju Nam Jul 2007

The Effects Of Welfare And Ida Program Rules On The Asset Holding Of Low-Income Families, Signe-Mary Mckernan, Caroline Ratcliff, Yunju Nam

Center for Social Development Research

The Effects of Welfare and IDA Program Rules on the Asset Holding of Low-Income Families


Globalization, Welfare Reform And The Social Economy: Developing An Alternative Approach To Analyzing Social Welfare Systems In The Post-Industrial Era, Vanna Gonzales Jun 2007

Globalization, Welfare Reform And The Social Economy: Developing An Alternative Approach To Analyzing Social Welfare Systems In The Post-Industrial Era, Vanna Gonzales

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Our understanding of the relationship between globalization and contemporary social welfare systems is heavily influenced by three conventional approaches to studying welfare reform: the political economy, moral economy, and mixed economy approaches. In addition to analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each of these approaches, a central aim of this article is to introduce the social economy approach as an emergent alternative. Drawing from a growing body of work on institutional innovation within the European third sector, I argue that the social economy approach makes a valuable contribution to understanding the role of welfare networks in reconfiguring globalizations' impact on …