Disciplining the Poor

Soss, Joe; Fording, Richard C.; Schram, Sanford F.

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“…Work strongly, perhaps centrally, 274 distinguishes the deserving in American social policy. 275 287,288,289,290,291 as are those pursuing education.…”

Section: What Themes That Have Served As Messages About Beneficiary 'mentioning

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“…352 In contrast, ''able-bodied'' men on public assistance are especially considered to be the '''unworthy' poor.'' 353 That said, women's somewhat more favorable treatment in social policy is historically more typical for white than non-white women, 354,355,356,357,358 middle and upper income than poor women, 359 and married than unmarried mothers. 360,361,362 Thus, it is relevant to track women's prevalence, and references to motherhood and families, in the data.…”

Section: What Themes That Have Served As Messages About Beneficiary 'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As seen in Table 3, across all four DTMs, both White and non-White references are less than 2 percent of tagged terms (and are absent in descriptions of insurancelosers). While potentially related to salience, 432,433 it is not possible to assess whether portrayals of race/ ethnicity are proportionate. Explicit mentions of race/ ethnicity appear most in descriptions of insurancegainers, who are portrayed as more often non-White (1.6 percent of tagged terms) than White (0.2 percent of tagged terms).…”

Section: What Themes That Have Served As Messages About Beneficiary 'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This question may especially merit study at the state level. 499,500 Elites indeed already appear to be monitoring the ACA's fidelity to its disparity reducing goals. 501 …”

Section: Portrayals and The Durable Pursuit Of Disparity Reductionmentioning

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“…503 Ono and Sloop make a similar argument, 504 and Soss, Fording, and Schram's arguments about neoliberalism as a ''policy rationality'' 505 tend toward a similar conclusion. 506 The Worker portrayal joins ACA features-like subsidies-that may already underscore citizens' market role. 507 And, the portrayal may in itself be insufficient to suggest that ACA benefits are earned; not just beneficiaries' work history, but payroll taxes, help generate this view of Social Security and Medicare.…”

Section: Portrayals and Beneficiary Political Engagementmentioning

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Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?

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2015

Politics and the Life Sciences

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ABSTRACT. Background: If successfully implemented and enduring, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stands to expand health insurance access in absolute terms, reduce inter-group disparities in that access, and reduce exposure to the financial vulnerabilities illness entails. Its durability-meaning both avoidance of outright retrenchment and fidelity to its policy aims-is thus of scholarly interest. Past literature suggests that social constructions of a policy's beneficiaries may impact durability.Questions: This paper first describes media portrayals of ACA beneficiaries with an eye toward answering three descriptive questions: (1) Do portrayals depict beneficiaries as economically heterogeneous? (2) Do portrayals focus attention on groups that have acquired new political relevance due to the ACA, such as young adults? (3) What themes that have served as messages about beneficiary ''deservingness'' in past social policy are most frequent in ACA beneficiary portrayals? The paper then assesses how the portrayal patterns that these questions uncover may work both for and against the ACA's durability, finding reasons for confidence as well as caution. Methods Implications and Conclusions:Existing literature suggests that these portrayal patterns may both support and limit ACA durability. In favor of durability is that ACA beneficiaries are depicted in terms that have been associated with deservingness in past American social policy-particularly being cast as workers and insiders. Yet, the results also give three reasons for caution. First, ACA insurance-losers are also portrayed as deserving. Second, it is unclear how the portrayal patterns found may impact the durability of the ACA's efforts to cut insurance disparities by age, health status, and especially race/ethnicity. Third, portrayals' strong casting of beneficiaries as workers, and limited attention to beneficiaries' economic heterogeneity and to young adults, may do little to help cultivate beneficiary political engagement around the ACA.

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“…Work strongly, perhaps centrally, 274 distinguishes the deserving in American social policy. 275 287,288,289,290,291 as are those pursuing education.…”

Section: What Themes That Have Served As Messages About Beneficiary 'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Themes That Have Served As Messages About Beneficiary 'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Themes That Have Served As Messages About Beneficiary 'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This question may especially merit study at the state level. 499,500 Elites indeed already appear to be monitoring the ACA's fidelity to its disparity reducing goals. 501 …”

Section: Portrayals and The Durable Pursuit Of Disparity Reductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Portrayals and Beneficiary Political Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The idea of the welfare state is highly contested. Across ideologies and theoretical schools of thought the welfare state is conceived differently. For liberals, such as T. H. Marshall (1950), the welfare state represents the zenith of a progressive development in rights from civic to political to social citizenship. For conservatives, such as Friedrich Hayek (1944), the welfare state represents a fundamental derangement undermining the inherent logic of a capitalist society. For Marxists, such as James O'Connor (1973), the welfare state represents an essential outcome of the contradictions of capitalism that generates increasing need for the state to compensate for the inequities and injuries associated with capitalist development, even as the growth of the welfare state makes it more difficult for the political economy to operate efficiently. All, however, agree that by the middle of the twentieth century the welfare state was emerging as an enduring feature of actually existing capitalist societies.

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Disciplining the Poor

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Are press depictions of Affordable Care Act beneficiaries favorable to policy durability?

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