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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

WMS 216 - Politics of Welfare Reform

3 credits
Examines the relevant historical, ideological, public-opinion, mass-media, partisan, interest-group, and other factors which together comprise the politics of welfare and welfare reform. Cross-listed as PSC 216.