The Welfare Experiments: Politics and Policy EvaluationWelfare experiments conducted at the state level during the 1990s radically restructured the American welfare state and have played a critical and unexpected role in the broader policymaking process. Through these experiments, previously unpopular reform ideas, such as welfare time limits, gained wide and enthusiastic support. Ultimately, the institutional legacy of the old welfare system was broken, new ideas took hold, and the welfare experiments