GREENBERG, David <br/><br/>
The dissemination and utilization of welfare-to-work experiments in state policymaking 

 -  2000 
<br/><br/> This paper reports the results of a telephone survey of state-level officials as to the influence of evaluations of three state welfare innovations: California`s GAIN, New York CAP, and Florida`s Project independence. The three experiments were known to those interviewd, yet they did not have influenced policymaking in less dramatic and more subtle respects. Much more important then empirical findings about the effects of tested programs was information about how these programs actually operated in the field along with evidence that the policies tested in welfare-to-work experiments were logically consistent (that is, there was no obvious reason to think that they would be unsuccessful), could clear federal waivers, and would not encounter major political resistance