Author's Keywords: Keywords: Faith-based social services, welfare policy, interest groups, religion and politics, church-state	Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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den Dulk, Kevin. "The Organized Politics of Faith-Based Social Services" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66122_index.html>

den Dulk, K. R. , 2002-08-28 "The Organized Politics of Faith-Based Social Services" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66122_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The recent debate over President Bush?s faith-based initiatives combines a historical legacy of church-state conflict with an area of public policy ? welfare ? that rivals religion and politics in the controversy it generates. Organized groups have always helped create and reinforce disputes over both church-state and welfare policy, and the recent debate over faith-based initiatives is no exception. Groups have engaged both mass opinion and political elites over the interconnections of religious freedom and establishment, effective welfare provision, and employment discrimination, among other issues. This paper examines how the motivations and resources of certain key organizations were brought to bear on the issue of religion and welfare from the mid 1990s to the present. The political decisions of these organizations shaped the debate over public-private partnerships when Congress passed welfare reform legislation in 1996 ? legislation that ultimately set the stage for the White House?s most recent proposals. This study highlights the complexities of issue definition over time and across institutions, as different groups formed coalitions and divided their labor to focus on specialized needs within Congress, the courts, and the executive branch. My underlying argument is that organized participation has been both a product of and influence on the political and policy environment surrounding elite support for faith-based social services. Groups do not simply influence policy development from the outside; they take part in the political nitty-gritty by meeting with executive officials, testifying before Congress, litigating, helping to draft administrative rules, and so on. Groups use these political environments to push their policy preferences, but these preferences ? or, more precisely, the ways groups frame their preferences ? are shaped by the very environments groups attempt to engage. In particular, I focus on how different institutional contexts influence not only the types of information groups are likely to convey, but whether groups attempt to convey information at all.

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