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  • Failing Universities

    How Higher Education Became a Commodity and What We Can Do About It

    by Howard Karger, David Stoesz ...
    Colleges and universities were once places where students came to learn, experts, intellectuals, and others came to teach, and where knowledge was created. Today, America's higher education system is severely compromised by commodification and corporatization, which have transformed higher education into a marketplace. This book examines the effects of these transformations, providing a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Welfare State 3.0

    Social Policy After the Pandemic

    by David Stoesz ...
    This book identifies specific changes to bring U.S. social policy in accord with the Information Age of the 21st century, in contrast to the policy infrastructure of industrial America.Welfare State 3.0: Social Policy after the Pandemic acknowledges the existing social infrastructure, considers viable options, and provides supporting data to suggest social policy reform by four strategies: ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Meritocracy, Populism, and the Future of Democracy

    by David Stoesz ...
    This book explores the fundamental shift that has occurred in America and Britain as elites accumulate unprecedented capital and influence and a meritocracy has emerged to manage national affairs, a change that means opportunity, affluence, and power have migrated away from most of the population.Arguing the following four points:Geography accounts for the accumulating influence of metropolitan ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Quixote's Ghost

    The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy

    by David Stoesz ...
    American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left since the New Deal and what that means for the future of social policy. Stoesz's fascinating account documents ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Politics of Child Abuse in America

    by Lela B. Costin, Howard Jacob Karger, David Stoesz ...
    Series series Child Welfare: A Series in Child Welfare Practice, Policy, and Research
    Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intenstified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem. One contradiction is the rapidly expanding child abuse industry (made up of enterprising psychotherapists and attorneys) which is consuming enormous resources, while thousands of poor children are seriously injured or killed, many while ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Investment State

    Charting the Future of Social Policy

    by David Stoesz ...
    Historically, the welfare state of the 20th century, which was built on the foundation of an industrial economy, seems poorly adapted to a 21st-century information age. Socially, profound demographic shifts--especially an aging population, increasing numbers of women in the labor force, and surging immigration--pose challenges for traditional programs. Economically, the legacy of social ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Dynamic Welfare State

    by David Stoesz ...
    The Dynamic Welfare State makes a case for a radical shift in how we view the roles of both public and private institutions in the United States. It documents the emergence of a third stage in the American welfare state, evident in corporations exploiting markets in healthcare, education, and financial services. Architects of the welfare state envisaged government as the provider of essential ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Building Better Social Programs

    How Evidence Is Transforming Public Policy

    by David Stoesz ...
    Evidence-based policymaking has, in recent decades, become a focus of program innovation in social care that engages foundations, universities, and state and federal governments. Rigorous research, epitomized by Randomized Controlled Trials, has become the benchmark for demonstrating efficacy and efficiency in social programming. Building Better Social Programs situates evidence-based policymaking ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Dynamic Welfare State

    by David Stoesz ...
    The Dynamic Welfare State makes a case for a radical shift in how we view the roles of both public and private institutions in the United States. It documents the emergence of a third stage in the American welfare state, evident in corporations exploiting markets in healthcare, education, and financial services. Architects of the welfare state envisaged government as the provider of essential ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Pandora's Dilemma

    Theories of Social Welfare for the 21st Century

    by David Stoesz ...
    What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child welfare, online education, the devolution of the welfare state, and its sequel, the investment state, illuminate critical factors determining the future of social welfare as well as the professions. Beyond explaining social change, theories include ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Road to Freedom

    How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise

    by Arthur C. Brooks ...
    Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America's exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions -- by exploding the size of government, propping up their corporate cronies, and trying to reorient our system from rewarding ... Read more

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  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

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