Institutional Change and the Challenge of the Underclass

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 501, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 170-181

  Nathan, Richard P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84929067826     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716289501001012     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
2. A new study of the urban underclass under the auspices of the Social Science Research Council and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation includes neighborhood ethnographic studies. Similar research at the neighborhood level, which will add an important dimension to our knowledge in this field, is being conducted by William Julius Wilson in Chicago.
3. My views on this subject are summarized in “Will the Underclass Always Be with Us?” Societyy Mar.-Apr. 1987, pp. 57-62.
4. Research by Mark Alan Hughes being conducted at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, uses detailed mapping analyses of 15 major cities for all census tracts to study conditions and trends relevant to the urban underclass.
5. “Trends in Residential Segregation,” The Urban Institute Policy and Research Report, Winter 1987, p. 20, based on a study by Scott McKinney and Ann Schnare, “Trends in Residential Segregation by Race, 1960-1980.”
6. Television interview, “Commentary,” 5 July 1987.
7. This challenge is discussed in other articles in this issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, including Jennifer L. Hochschild, “Equal Opportunity and the Estranged Poor.”
8. The New Consensus on Family Welfare (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1987).
9. See Joan Petersilia, Expanding Optionsfor Criminal Sentencing R-3544-EMC (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1987); John J. Dilulio, Jr., “True Penal Reform Can Save Money,” Wall Street Journal, 28 Sept. 1987.
10. See, for example, Eugene Bardach, The Implementation Game: What Happens after a Bill Becomes a Law (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977); Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky, Implementation, 3d ed., expanded (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
11. James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, “The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political American Political Science Review, 78:734-49 (1984).
12. Res., p. 738.
13. See Judith Gueron, Work Initiatives for Welfare Recipients: Lessons from a Multi-State Experiment (New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, 1986).
14. The ideas presented in this section are discussed further and in greater detail in Richard P. Nathan, Social Science in Government, Uses and Misuses (New York: Basic Books, 1988).