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Professor of Politics
Ph.D. 1973 (political science), M.A. 1968 (political science), Harvard; B.A. 1966 (political science), Amherst College.

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Research Interests:

American politics and policy making; social policy, especially anti-poverty programs and the politics surrounding them; welfare and welfare reform; work requirements in welfare and the implementation of welfare employment programs; implementation research and public policy analysis; public policy as a field in political science.

Affiliations:

American Political Science Association, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Organization, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

Fellowships/Honors:

Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1999-2000; John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Company Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1994-1995; Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1993-1994; Visiting Distinguished Professor, La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 1987.

Selected Works:

The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty, ed. Washington, DC. Brookings. 1997.
The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America. Basic Books. 1992.
Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship. Free Press. 1986.

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