The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control
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2006Author
Soss, Joe
Fording, Richard
Schram, Sanford F.
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Through analysis of state-level policy decisions, the authors
show how modest but consistent racial effects on policy choices
combine to produce large disparities in welfare and criminal
justice policies encountered by members of different racial
groups.