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Why Americans hate welfare : race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy
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- Creator
- Martin Gilens
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Paperback edition
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xii, 296 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226293653, 0226293653
- OCLC
- ocm46843266
- First published in 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-279) and index.
- The American welfare state: public opinion and public policy -- Individualism, self-interest, and opposition to welfare -- Racial attitudes, the undeserving poor, and opposition to welfare -- Assisting alternative explanations: statistical models of welfare attitudes -- The news media and the racialization of poverty -- Media distortions: causes and consequences -- Racial stereotypes and public responses to poverty -- Beyond the attitude survey public opinion and antipoverty policy -- The politics of the American welfare state