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.