Ideology in the US welfare debate: Neo-liberal representations of poverty

Discourse and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 317-357

  De Goede, Marieke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dominant ideology; Neo liberalism; Newsweek; Poverty; US welfare debate; Welfare discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344446057     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007003003     Document Type: Article

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