Ending welfare as we know it

Introduction: Welfare reform as a political and policy problem

Welfare as we knew it

Explaining welfare politics: context, choices, traps

The past as prologue

Welfare reform agendas in the 1990s

The role of policy research

Public opinion on welfare reform

Interest groups and welfare reform

Not ending welfare as we know it: the Clinton administration's welfare reform initiative

A new Congress, a new dynamic

Stop and go in the Senate

Endgames and aftershocks

Gaining ground? The new world of welfare

Welfare reform and the dynamics of American politics.