right on FBI

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Mon Apr 30 13:12:50 PDT 2001


At 04:48 PM 4/30/01 +0100, Max wrote:
>I debated KOB once and learned I never had to read
>her, but this quote below is not conducive to the
>FBI initiative. We would expect the same sort of
>dependency between bureaucrats and the FBI groups.
>Same game, different players.

Mark Chaves (see the cite below) shows that government funding for faith base organizations is likely to benefit liberal congregations.

wojtek

TI: Religious Congregations and Welfare Reform: Who Will Take Advantage of "Charitable Choice"?

AU: Chaves,-Mark

IN: Dept Sociology, U Arizona, Tucson [e-mail: mchaves at u.arizona.edu]

SO: American-Sociological-Review; 1999, 64, 6, Dec, 836-846..

JN: American-Sociological-Review;

IS: 0003-1224

CO: ASREAL

DT: aja Abstract-of-Journal-Article

LA: English

CP: United-States

PY: 1999

AB: The "Charitable Choice" provision of the 1996 welfare reform legislation altered the conditions under which religious organizations can

provide publicly funded social services. Here, interview data from the 1998 National Congregations Study (N = 1,236 religious congregations)

are used to address to what extent congregations seek government support for social service activity & which congregation subsets are most

likely to take advantage of these new opportunities. Univariate statistics show that 33+% of congregations are potentially open to pursuing

government funds to support social service activities. Multivariate analyses show that liberal & moderate congregations are much more likely than

conservative congregations to pursue charitable-choice opportunities, & predominately African American congregations are particularly likely to

move in this direction. Results are consistent with sociological theory & research, but are surprising in the context of the national politics of

charitable choice. 2 Tables, 28 References. Adapted from the source document



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