Should the U.S. Federal Government Expand Its Efforts to Help the Poor? Attitudes of Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, and Democrats.
Even when controlling for big versus small government philosophies, this paper reports quantitatively significant cleavages in the probabilities of supporting increased federal antipoverty efforts that persist between conservatives and liberals, and Republicans and Democrats. However, predicted cond...
| Published in: | Journal of Poverty Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 491 - 509 |
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