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Sugie, Naomi Conner, Emma |
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Marginalization or Incorporation? Welfare Receipt and Political Participation among Young Adults Social Problems published online (12 November 2020): DOI: 10.1093/socpro/spaa050/5979691. Also: https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article/doi/10.1093/socpro/spaa050/5979691 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Modeling, Fixed Effects; Political Attitudes/Behaviors/Efficacy; Voting Behavior; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Prior scholarship finds that participation in means-tested welfare programs, including cash assistance and food stamps, deters political participation among groups that are already politically and socioeconomically marginalized. We revisit these findings within a contemporary context using nationally representative data, along with fixed-effects models that adjust for time-stable unobserved and time-varying observed characteristics. In contrast to prior research, we find little evidence that cash assistance is related to participation. However, food stamps--a benefits program that has undergone substantial changes in recent years--is positively associated with being registered to vote. Moreover, food stamps has countervailing associations with voting--e.g., marginalizing and incorporating--that depend on a person's attention to politics. Together, these findings revise our understanding of how welfare influences political inequalities and advances policy feedback scholarship by identifying heterogeneity by political attentiveness as a focus of future inquiry. |
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Sugie, Naomi and Emma Conner. "Marginalization or Incorporation? Welfare Receipt and Political Participation among Young Adults." Social Problems published online (12 November 2020): DOI: 10.1093/socpro/spaa050/5979691.
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