Fed by Reform: Congressional Politics, Partisan Change, and the Food Stamp Program, 1961–1981

Rosenfeld, Sam

doi:10.1017/s0898030610000230

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“…This view is powerfully reinforced by farmers themselves through federated organizations like the Farm Bureau and an array of commodity groups representing growers of major crops who enjoy regular access to the House and Senate agriculture committees (Hansen, 1991). In the 1960s, as the farm population declined and redistricting reduced rural representation in the House, farm groups found common cause with anti-hunger advocates whose influence was growing within the Democratic Party (Rosenfeld, 2010). Together, they forged a bipartisan coalition in support of farm subsidies and food stamps, the latter a means-tested nutrition assistance program for the poor (Ferejohn, 1986;Hansen, 1991).…”

Section: The Us Food and Agriculture Regimementioning

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“…Several pieces of evidence point to the effects of asymmetric polarization as a source of policy regime decay (Hacker & Pierson, 2015). Although political conflict has been a persistent feature of food stamp politics (Rosenfeld, 2010), the rightward shift by the Republican Party has made it increasingly difficult to broker bipartisan agreement over nutrition programs. As Bosso (2017) points out in his close study of Farm Bill politics, farm state Republicans such as Robert Dole helped forge the link between food stamps and farm subsidies in the 1960s, and many Republicans continued to serve as key supporters of the program through the 1970s and 1980s.…”

Section: Possible Causes and Consequences Of Policy Regime Decaymentioning

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Policy Regime Decay

Sheingate¹

2020

Policy Studies Journal

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This paper develops the concept of policy regime decay to examine what happens when the political foundations of public policies break down. Policy regime decay consists of an erosion of consensus over policy goals, an unraveling of support coalitions, and an exhaustion of institutional capacity to structure the policy process. These elements of decay have observable implications and they inform an empirical strategy for a case study of U.S. food and agriculture policy. Using content analysis of congressional hearings, analysis of legislative roll calls, and policy agenda measures, the paper finds evidence of elite disagreement over nutrition programs, a partisan divide on Farm Bill votes, and a diffusion of committee jurisdiction over food and agriculture issues in Congress. These findings have implications for understanding the policy consequences of polarization, policy feedback effects, and the dynamics of policy regimes.

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Section: The Us Food and Agriculture Regimementioning

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Policy Regime Decay

Sheingate¹

2020

Policy Studies Journal

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“…There is potential for farmer-labor organizing that builds on the lessons of the last New Deal, and the reconfigurations of power through the 1960s and 1970s that allowed food stamps to enter the Farm Bill in 1977 (Rosenfeld 2010). For a Green New Deal to work in the twenty-first century, everyone's incomes need to increase.…”

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The Long New Deal

Patel

Goodman²

2020

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Calls for a Green New Deal in the United States represent an opportunity to learn from, and avoid the mistakes of, the last New Deal. We outline not the suite of Franklin Delano Roosevelt-era policies that fell under the umbrella of New Deal, but the conditions of their possibility, and what the aftermath of the New Deal means for the United States and beyond. The success of a Green New Deal rests both on the mobilization of a countermovement to backlash caused by, and a commitment to avoid the injustices furthered through, the original compact after which it is named.

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Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s

Ballantyne¹

2023

J. Am. Stud.

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This article traces the approach of moderate southern Senators toward domestic hunger and welfare in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Often overlooked in scholarly accounts, these Senators formed a significant minority of the southern delegation. Their behavior demonstrates both the continued possibilities of a more inclusive southern politics after the mid-1960s and the importance of moderate southerners to the Food Stamp Program's major expansion in the years after 1964. At the same time, however, these politicians opposed guaranteed-income schemes and endorsed “workfare” measures promoted by more conservative southerners that conditioned aid on participation in low-wage employment.

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Fed by Reform: Congressional Politics, Partisan Change, and the Food Stamp Program, 1961–1981

Cited by 6 publications

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Policy Regime Decay

Policy Regime Decay

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Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s

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