David Stoesz () is an American academic, policy analyst, author, and social entrepreneur. Stoesz worked as a welfare caseworker and welfare department director and has published about social policy, child welfare, international development, and national politics. He earned his PhD at the University of Maryland-Baltimore in 1980, subsequently teaching at San Diego State University and Virginia Commonwealth University where he served as Samuel Wurtzel Professor of Social Work. He is a professor emeritus in the Virginia Commonwealth School of Social Work, and a founder of Up$tart, a company whose products assist US college students in applying for federal benefits.
Stoesz's book, Quixote’s Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy received the Prohumanitate Literary Award.
In 2010 Stoesz was inducted into the National Academy of Social Insurance.https://www.nasi.org/about/our-experts/
Bibliography Books Meritocracy, Populism, and the Future of Democracy (2022)Review of Meritocracy, Populism, and the Future of Democracy: Ali Sarihan (2023), Democratization, Welfare State 3.0: Social Policy After the Pandemic (2021) Building Better Social Programs: How Evidence is Transforming Public Policy (2020) The Investment State (2018) The Dynamic Welfare State (2017) Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy (2005) Reviews of Quixote's Ghost: Lawrence M. Mead (2007), The Journal of Politics, , Jake Rosenfeld (2006), Contemporary Sociology, A poverty of imagination: Bootstrap capitalism, sequel to welfare reform (2000)Review of A Poverty of Imagination: Sandra S. Smith (2001), American Journal of Sociology, , The Politics of Child Abuse in America (with Lela B. Costin and Howard Jacob Karger, Oxford University Press, 1996)Reviews of The Politics of Child Abuse in America: LeRoy Ashby (1996), History of Education Quarterly, Douglas J. Besharov and Jacob W. Dembosky (1997), The American Political Science Review, Malcolm Bush (1997), Social Service Review, Robert E. Cosner (1998), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Anthony N. Maluccio (1997), "Time for an Ideological Shift in Child Welfare? An Essay Review", Social Service Review, Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich (1997), Social Work, Steven Mintz (1997), Journal of Social History, Reconstructing the American Welfare State (with Howard Jacob Karger, Rowman & Littlefield, 1992)Reviews of Reconstructing the American Welfare State: Loretta Muller (1994), "A New Mission in Social Policy", Public Administration Review, Stewart Tolnay (1993), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
As an editor or co-author American Social Welfare Policy, 9th ed. (2022) co-authored with Howard Karger Stoesz, David, Howard Jacob Karger, and Terry E. Carrillo. "A dream deferred: How social work education lost its way and what can be done." (2011). Karger, Howard Jacob, and David Stoesz. American social welfare policy. Allyn and Bacon, 2009.
Articles Stoesz, David. "Evidence-based policy: Reorganizing social services through accountable care organizations and social impact bonds." Research on Social Work Practice 24, no. 2 (2014): 181–185. Karger, Howard Jacob, and David Stoesz. "The growth of social work education programs, 1985-1999: Its impact on economic and educational factors related to the profession of social work." Journal of Social Work Education 39, no. 2 (2003): 279–295. Stoesz, David, and Howard Jacob Karger. "Deconstructing welfare: The Reagan legacy and the welfare state." Social Work 38, no. 5 (1993): 619–628.
Awards Stoesz has received two Fulbright Distinguished Chair awards: in 2014 to the UK, in 2017 to Australia.
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