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“Our arithmetic was unique”: The Sheppard-Towner Act and the Constraints of Federalism on Data Collection Before the New Deal
Journal of Policy History ( IF 0.222 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 , DOI: 10.1017/s0898030621000051
MICHELLE BEZARK

This article reveals how the politics of federalism in the 1920s stifled the U.S. Children’s Bureau’s ability to collect national data on the workings of the Sheppard-Towner Act. The Bureau staff’s reliance on state administrators for data hindered their efforts to collect standardized national statistics on the states’ use of federal dollars. Ultimately, this barrier contributed to Sheppard-Towner’s defeat in 1929. Though the law was short-lived, the problems the Children’s Bureau encountered administering it provide insights into how federal matching grant programs began to shape federal and state relations before the New Deal. As this article shows, Bureau staff learned from their experience administering Sheppard-Towner that they needed to implement more stringent federal oversight over state-level accounting in their administration of Title V of the Social Security Act.

中文翻译:

“我们的算法是独一无二的”:新政之前的谢泼德-唐纳法案和联邦制对数据收集的限制

本文揭示了 1920 年代的联邦制政治如何扼杀了美国儿童局收集有关 Sheppard-Towner 法案运作的国家数据的能力。该局工作人员对州行政人员的数据依赖阻碍了他们收集有关各州使用联邦资金的标准化国家统计数据的努力。最终,这一障碍导致了 Sheppard-Towner 在 1929 年的失败。尽管该法律是短暂的,但儿童局在管理它时遇到的问题提供了对联邦匹配拨款计划如何在新政之前开始塑造联邦和州关系的见解。如本文所示,
更新日期:2021-04-19
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