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Marshall, Geoffrey

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“…British sociologist T. H. Marshall, for example, traced the development of civic, political, and social rights from the eighteenth century through the twentieth century, emphasizing the ways social policies alter the possibilities for inclusive democratic politics and redefine the scope and meaning of citizenship. 72 Furthering these ideas, Gøsta Esping-Andersen analyzed how social policies may impose class stratification, foster new kinds of equality or inequality, promote solidarity to different degrees, and alter citizens' dependence on states and markets. 73 More recently, scholars have explored the reciprocal relationship between public policy and citizenship in relation to race and gender.…”

Section: Origins Of "Policy Feedback" As a Conceptmentioning

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The Consequences of Public Policy for Democratic Citizenship: Bridging Policy Studies and Mass Politics

Mettler¹,

Soss²

2004

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Democracies, and the citizenries that stand at their center, are not natural phenomena; they are made and sustained through politics. Government policies can play a crucial role in this process, shaping the things publics believe and want, the ways citizens view themselves and others, and how they understand and act toward the political system. Yet, while political scientists have said a great deal about how publics influence policies, they know far less about the ways policies influence publics. In this article, we seek to clarify how policies, once enacted, are likely to affect political thought and action in the citizenry. Such effects are hard to locate within the standard framework of approaches to mass behavior, and they are generally ignored by program evaluators and policy analysts. To bridge this gap, we direct attention toward a long and vibrant, but underappreciated, line of inquiry we call the “political tradition” of mass behavior research. Drawing this tradition together with recent work on “policy feedback,” we outline a framework for thinking about how policies influence mass politics. The major types of such effects include defining membership; forging political cohesion and group divisions; building or undermining civic capacities; framing policy agendas, problems, and evaluations; and structuring, stimulating, and stalling political participation.

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Section: Origins Of "Policy Feedback" As a Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%