caa a22 4500 388081724 CHVBK 20180307125218.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585401 doi S0003055400217383 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585401 Soss Joe American University Lessons of Welfare: Policy Design, Political Learning, and Political Action [Elektronische Daten] [Joe Soss] This article explores the links between welfare participation and broader forms of political involvement. Adopting a political learning perspective, I present evidence that policy designs structure clients' program experiences in ways that teach alternative lessons about the nature of government. Through their experiences under a given policy design, welfare clients develop program-specific beliefs about the wisdom and efficacy of asserting themselves. Because clients interpret their experiences with welfare bureaucracies as evidence of how government works more generally, beliefs about the welfare agency and client involvement become the basis for broader political orientations. I conclude that the views of government that citizens develop through program participation help explain broader patterns of political action and quiescence. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 363-380 0003-0554 93:2<363 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585401 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585401 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Soss Joe American University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 363-380 0003-0554 93:2<363 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge