| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w20829
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 20829
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| Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State: Confederate Pensions in the American South |
| Shari Eli; Laura Salisbury
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| 发表日期 | 2015-01-12
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They continued to expand these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using legislative documents, application records for Confederate pensions, and county-level census and electoral data, we argue that political considerations guided the enactment and distribution of these pensions. We show that Confederate pensions programs were introduced and funded during years in which Democratic gubernatorial candidates were threatened at the ballot box. Moreover, we offer evidence that pensions were disbursed to counties in which these candidates had lost ground to candidates from alternative parties. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
; Health, Education, and Welfare
; Poverty and Wellbeing
; History
; Other History
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20829
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578503
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Shari Eli,Laura Salisbury. Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State: Confederate Pensions in the American South. 2015.
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