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Replication data for: Welfare Policymaking and Intersections of Race, Ethniciity, and Gender in U.S. State Legislatures

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Title Replication data for: Welfare Policymaking and Intersections of Race, Ethniciity, and Gender in U.S. State Legislatures
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5ZVCMG
 
Creator Beth Reingold
Adrienne Smith
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Welfare policy in the American states has been shaped profoundly by race, ethnicity, and representation. Does gender matter as well? Focusing on state welfare reform in the mid-1990s, we test hypotheses derived from two alternative approaches to incorporating gender into the study of representation and welfare policymaking. An additive approach, which assumes gender and race/ethnicity are distinct and independent, suggests that female state legislators--regardless of race/ethnicity--will mitigate the more restrictive and punitive aspects of welfare reform, much like their African American and Latino counterparts do. In contrast, an intersectional approach, which highlights the overlapping and interdependent nature of gender and race/ethnicity, suggests that legislative women of color will have the strongest countervailing effect of state welfare reform--stronger than that of other women or men of color. Our empirical analyses suggest an intersectional approach yields a more accurate understanding of gender, race/ethnicity, and welfare politics in the states.
 
Subject Social Sciences