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Power from Below, Welfare Legislation and Regulation: The Study of Piven and Cloward’s Welfare Thought

FENG Baobin   

  1. Department of Sociology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
  • Received:2020-07-09 Online:2020-11-15 Published:2020-11-19

Abstract: Piven and Cloward discussed the construction of welfare state in the United States along the social class perspective. They pointed out that the protest movements of the people at the bottom was the main force to promote the welfare legislation in the United States, and in return the welfare legislation became the regulation power to the people at the bottom. Through interpretation the relevant works of Piven and Cloward, this paper reveals the mechanism of the underclass protests affecting welfare legislation and the dialectical relationship between the welfare legislative relief function and the control function. According to Piven and Cloward, the protests is the manifestation of the power from below. In economic crisis, the bottom-level protest movements influence American electoral politics and affect the United States welfare legislation. Piven and Cloward did not deny the relief function of welfare, but further pointed out that welfare governance has the risk of causing social isolation of the people at the bottom and eliminating the legislation's relief function. Piven and Cloward’s theoretical perspective is helpful to understanding our country's welfare legislation, grass-roots governance practice and research.

Key words: Power from Below, welfare legislation, grass-roots governance

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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