Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2017
Abstract
The 2016 election has had significant consequences for American social welfare policy. Some of these consequences are direct. By giving unified control of the federal government to the Republican Party for the first time in a decade, the election has potentially empowered conservatives to ram through a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act—the landmark “Obamacare” law that marked the most significant expansion of the social welfare state since the 1960s. Other consequences are more indirect. Both the election result itself, and Republicans’ actions since, have spurred a renewed debate within the left-liberal coalition regarding the politics of social welfare policy.
Recommended Citation
Bagenstos, Samuel. "Disability, Universalism, Social Rights, and Citizenship." Cardozo L. Rev. 39, no. 2 (2017): 413-36.
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