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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

policy making, welfare reform, lobbyists, politicians, ethnographic interviewing

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Anthropology

Abstract

This paper is to report the results of my study on policy-making in welfare reform. While interning at a special interest group for disability issues in Washington D. C., I conducted ethnographic research through ethnographic interviewing and participant observation. It was my intent to profile the culture of policy-makers, specifically in welfare reform, as part of a more extensive study to compare their culture to those affected by policy. I found that the primary markers of the policy-making culture are information exchange and meetings.

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