Fifty Worlds of Welfare: State Discretion and Social Citizenship Since 1994

Sarah K. Bruch; Arun Chaudhary; Colin Gordon; KaLeigh K. White

doi:10.7758/RSF.2026.12.1.02

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vol. 12 no. 1 34-66

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2026.12.1.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

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2377-8261

History

Published online May 13, 2026.

© 2026 Russell Sage Foundation. Bruch, Sarah K., Arun Chaudhary, Colin Gordon, and KaLeigh K. White. 2026. “Fifty Worlds of Welfare: State Discretion and Social Citizenship Since 1994.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 12(1): 34–66. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2026.12.1.02. Direct correspondence to: Sarah K. Bruch, at skbruch{at}udel.edu, 111 Academy Street, Newark, DE, 19716, United States. Arun Chaudhary, at achaudh{at}udel.edu, 111 Academy Street, Newark, DE, 19716, United States. Colin Gordon, at colin-gordon{at}uiowa.edu, 280 Schaeffer Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, United States. KaLeigh K. White, at kaleighkwhite{at}gmail.com, 1180 Observatory Drive, 3412 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building, Madison, WI 53706-1320, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Sarah K. Bruch^a,
Arun Chaudhary^b,
Colin Gordon^c and
KaLeigh K. White^d

^aAssociate professor at the University of Delaware, Newark, United States
^bUniversity of Delaware, Newark, United States
^cUniversity of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
^d2023–2025 National Poverty Fellow with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

Correspondence authors:
Sarah K. Bruch, (skbruch{at}udel.edu), Arun Chaudhary, (achaudh{at}udel.edu), Colin Gordon, (colin-gordon{at}uiowa.edu), KaLeigh K. White, (kaleighkwhite{at}gmail.com)

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