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Is The American Welfare State Unusually Small

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2003

Christopher Howard
Christopher Howard
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David D. and Carolyn B. Wakefield Associate Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States (Princeton University Press, 1997).
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 411 - 416
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