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Social Construction (Continued)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1995

Robert C. Lieberman ,
Helen Ingram  and
Anne L. Schneider
Robert C. Lieberman
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Helen Ingram
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Anne L. Schneider
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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Abstract

In this Review in June 1993 Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram argued that the social construction of target populations is an important political and policy phenomenon. Robert Lieberman criticizes Schneider and Ingram's “circular” conceptualization of public policy and social construction. He proposes a “historical-institutional” framework for understanding the role of group identities in political change. Lieberman analyzes the dual experience of African-Americans in the American welfare state as an example of political institutions and policy changes' affecting changing group constructions. Ingram and Schneider respond that their purpose is to understand how social constructions shape policy designs, which in turn affect citizen perceptions and participation, and argue that Lieberman's ideas of institutions and history yield no analytic improvement. They provide their own analysis of the case of welfare to illustrate the advantages for future research of their conception of policy targets.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 89 , Issue 2 , June 1995 , pp. 437 - 446
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1995

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