Redefining compassion to reform welfare: How supporters of 1990s US federal welfare reform aimed for the moral high ground

Social Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 519-557

  Stryker, Robin ^a   Wald, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

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EID: 72749086040     PISSN: 10724745     EISSN: 14682893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxp022     Document Type: Article

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