scholarly journals Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State: Confederate Pensions in the American South

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 1078-1112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari Eli ◽  
Laura Salisbury
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
American South ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
County Level ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Patronage Politics ◽  
The American South ◽  
The Welfare State

Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They expanded these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using pension application records and county-level electoral data, we argue that political considerations guided the distribution of these pensions. We show that Confederate pension programs were funded during years in which Democratic gubernatorial candidates were threatened at the ballot box. Moreover, we show that pensions were disbursed to counties in which these candidates had lost ground to candidates from alternative parties.

scholarly journals War, religion, and white supremacy in comparative perspective: South Africa and the American South

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
R M
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
American South ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
White American ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Religious Symbolism ◽  
Protestant Christianity ◽  
The American South

The southern states of the United States of America and South Africa share a number of analogous historical realities. One of these, which is the main subject of  this article,  is  the way in which the memory of a lost war had fused cultural mythology and religious symbolism to provide a foundation for the formation and maintenance of attitudes of white supremacy in both contexts.  This article seeks to achieve a historical  understanding of the complex interrelationship between the development of cultural identity and Protestant Christianity by  focusing on these issues in the histories of the Afrikaner and the white American Southerner in comparative perspective. 

scholarly journals Neo-liberalism and the Nordic welfare model: a study of the Liberal Alliance and ideological adaptation in Denmark

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troels Fage Hedegaard
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
The Welfare State

This article explores whether and how the neo-liberal ideology has adapted to the Nordic welfare model by studying the attitudes of voters and grass-roots members of the Danish party Liberal Alliance towards the welfare state. This inquiry into one of the key issues for the neo-liberal ideology is inspired by theory on how an ideology will adapt to its context. The expectation outlined in the article is for the neo-liberals of this party to favour features that make the Nordic welfare model distinctive – extensive governmental responsibility, especially for children and the elderly, and a universalistic approach to providing welfare. I have explored this question using a mixed-methods approach, where I analyse a survey of voters and interviews with grass-roots members of the party. Combined this shows that the neo-liberals in Liberal Alliance do support a role for the welfare state that extends beyond a minimum welfare state, especially for the care of children, but they view old age and retirement mostly as a problem each individual must deal with. Regarding the universalistic approach to providing welfare, the neo-liberals seem torn between two different tendencies, one being a perception of a fair way to provide welfare and the other the idea of a selective welfare state as a neo-liberal core idea, which leads to ambivalent attitudes. I argue that this results in a form of the neo-liberal ideology that has adapted to the Nordic welfare model.

Latinas/os in the Southern United States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perla M. Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American South ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
New Destinations ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The American South ◽  
And Migration

Latinas/os were present in the American South long before the founding of the United States of America, yet knowledge about their southern communities in different places and time periods is deeply uneven. In fact, regional themes important throughout the South clarify the dynamics that shaped Latinas/os’ lives, especially race, ethnicity, and the colorline; work and labor; and migration and immigration. Ideas about racial difference, in particular, reflected specifics of place, and intersections of local, regional, and international endeavors and movements of people and resources. Accordingly, Latinas/os’ position and treatment varied across the South. They first worked in agricultural fields picking cotton, oranges, and harvesting tobacco, then in a variety of industries, especially poultry and swine processing and packing. The late 20th century saw the rapid growth of Latinas/os in southern states due to changing migration and immigration patterns that moved from traditional states of reception to new destinations in rural, suburban, and urban locales with limited histories with Latinas/os or with substantial numbers of immigrants in general.

DOES THE WELFARE STATE HELP THE POOR?

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Cowen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
The Welfare State

Does the welfare state help the poor? This surprisingly simple question often generates more heat than light. By the welfare state, I mean transfer programs aimed at helping the poor through the direct redistribution of income. (This excludes general economic policy, antitrust, the volunteer military, and many other policies that affect the well-being of the poor.) Defenders of the welfare state often assume that the poor benefit from it, while critics suggest that the losses outweigh the gains. The most notable of such criticisms is Charles Murray's Losing Ground, which suggests that the welfare state has failed to achieve its stated ends.

Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (42) ◽  
pp. e2103519118
Author(s):  
Kyshia Henderson ◽  
Samuel Powers ◽  
Michele Claibourn ◽  
Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi ◽  
Sophie Trawalter
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
County Level ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
History Of ◽  
The American South ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Relevant Covariates ◽  
Black Progress

The present work interrogates the history of Confederate memorializations by examining the relationship between these memorializations and lynching, an explicitly racist act of violence. We obtained and merged data on Confederate memorializations at the county level and lynching victims, also at the county level. We find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of the number of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates. This finding provides concrete, quantitative, and historically and geographically situated evidence consistent with the position that Confederate memorializations reflect a racist history, one marred by intentions to terrorize and intimidate Black Americans in response to Black progress.

A burden to the welfare state? Expectations of non-EU migrants on welfare support

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 501-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Albertini ◽  
Michela Semprebon
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
Young Family ◽  
Emilia Romagna Region ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Welfare State

In recent decades European institutions have been promoting the broadening of immigrants’ social rights, while at national levels political battles have been led around the definition of the legitimate community of welfare receivers. Immigrants have been often depicted as undeserving individuals threatening welfare state sustainability, although existing research does not fully support this view. At the same time, political and academic debates on immigrants and welfare have diverted attention away from immigrants themselves, failing to address their experiences and welfare support expectations. This article aims to contribute to filling this gap by addressing to what extent non-European immigrants expect the Italian welfare state to provide support for their family. The empirical evidence builds on a survey administered, between 2014 and 2015, to about 350 immigrants from Maghreb, China and the Philippines residing in the Emilia-Romagna region. By means of a mixed-method comprising qualitative and quantitative analyses, the article shows that only a minority of respondents, particularly Maghrebis, have some expectations in terms of public welfare support. It suggests that such support is almost exclusively expected to cope with the needs of the young-family generation, while the needs of the elderly members are assumed to be met through relatives’ informal support. Moreover, the article highlights marked differences in expectations across specific groups and points to explicatory variables such as country of origin, gender, educational level, age on arrival and length of stay. It further reflects on immigrants’ degree of knowledge of the welfare state functioning and specifies the rationales, based on perceived rights or meritocratic criteria, explaining expectations for support.

Pensions, Inflation and Growth: A Comparative Study of the Elderly in the Welfare State.

ILR Review ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Walter A. Friedlander ◽  
Thomas Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Welfare State

F. Lesemann and C. Martin (eds.). Home-Based Care, the Elderly, the Family and the Welfare State: An International Comparison. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1993.

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 714-715
Author(s):  
Evelyn Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
International Comparison ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Soins À Domicile ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Family ◽  
Home Based Care ◽  
The Welfare State

RÉSUMÉDes collaborateurs des États-Unis, du Royaume-Uni, des Pays-Bas, de la Suede, de la France, du Canada et de l'Italie résument les développements en matière de soins à domicile survenus dans leurs pays et les problèmes soulevés par ces développements. Ces travaux sont intéressants à cause des différents rôles que tient l'état dans le domaine des soins à domicile et parce qu'ils illustrent les effets des idéologies politiques sur les développements en cours.

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