Chapter 19 AP Gov Social Welfare

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An example of a welfare policy in which most or all people benefit is...

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Social Security

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AN example of a welfare policy that helps only a small number of people is...

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AFDC, SNAP (food stamps), and Medicaid

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Means test are associated with the following types of welfare programs: majoritarian based, minoritarian based, client based, concurrency based, neo-institutional politics

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client based

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Means test place specific focus on...

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income level

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Welfare policies in which nearly everyone benefits and nearly everyone pays are characterized by...

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majoritarian politics

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Welfare policies in which a relatively few number of people benefit but almost everyone pays are...

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client politics

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AFDC was created in the

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1930s

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An example of client-based welfare policies that recently lost political legitimacy is...

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AFDC

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Which of the following makes US welfare policy different from that of most European democracies? Americans have tended to insist that welfare benefits be particularized and take the form of cash payments. Americans have been quicker than other countries to adopt many components of the welfare state. Americans have insisted that the federal government play a large role in running welfare programs. Americans have tended to favor aid in the form of money over aid in the form of services. Americans have generally taken a more restrictive view of who is entitles to receive government assistance.

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Americans have generally taken a more restrictive view of who is entitles to receive government assistance.

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In America, we have insisted the _________ play(s) a large role in running welfare programs.

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the states