Winner of the 2005 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration "The rich detail provided by the author and his investigation into the provision of administrative services make this a useful addition to the literature on welfare reform, state politics, and public policy."
Choice "Government Matters offers an important, in-depth analysis of the government institutions that developed and implemented ... Read moreWisconsin's welfare reform program. The book will be most attractive to academic audiences, as well as practitioners and researchers who have an interest in administrative structures in general and in Wisconsin's welfare reform efforts in particular."
Susan T. Gooden and Kasey J. Martin, Public Administration Review "Lawrence Mead's new book is ... an especially welcome addition to the literature on contemporary welfare policy... Government Matters provides a valuable portrait of the political and administrative dimensions of putting policy into practice over time. It is an important book that raises vitally important questions about the contemporary American welfare state, governance, and the meaning of citizenship."
Laura S. Jenson, Perspectives on Politics "Lawrence Mead's book is an extraordinary chronicle of perhaps the most well known and successful instance of American welfare reform in the 1990s, in Wisconsin... [A] judicious combination of interviews, participant-observation, documentary research, and statistical analysis."
Robert C. Lieberman, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Show Less