David Stoesz
Biographic Data
| ID | 244680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Stoesz |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoesz |
| SIGNATURE | STOESZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9282-1214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Failing Universities: How Higher Education Became a Commodity and What We Can Do About It
Higher education in the US is increasingly being based on a corporate model. This book examines the corporatized industry of American higher education, providing a comprehensive critique of the problems the sector faces.It explores alternative policy solutions and examples of systems of higher education that are both effective and cost-effective. The authors propose a forward-looking agenda for structural reform that is less expensive and more ed…
Authoritarian nationalism and social work
Despite predictions that liberal democracy was ascendent as a paradigm for governance in the contemporary era, the world has witnessed an alarming rise in authoritarian nationalism. A seeming preference for open and transparent models of plural democratic government has been challenged by the global advance of despotic and repressive regimes that are organized around racial, religious, and nationalist themes. Social work, grounded in the practice…
Jane Crow and the Abolition of Family Policing
The Texas governor's weaponization of caseworkers to investigate parents of transgender minors combined with the murder of six adoptees in 2018 is an inflection point of child welfare. Since 2000, multiple investigations have depicted child welfare as racist surveillance of poor families. The Detlaff affair demonstrates the existence of a cartel in child welfare, protecting a retrograde status quo. Restructuring children's services is proposed, e…
Social Work as Mediocracy: A Response to Gambrill, Esptein, Cabin, and Teasley, Dettlaff, and Abrams
Human Service Cartels: The Soft Repression of the Mediocracy
Since the Progressive Era, professions have established cartels, allegedly to advance public wellbeing. Mental health, public welfare, and children’s services document damage to citizens even as the professions serving vulnerable populations have flourished. Abetted by civil service requirements, state licensing, university training programs, and accreditation, human service cartels have been immune from public accountability. Yet, economic desta…
American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach
The Child Welfare Cartel, Redux
In response to “The Child Welfare Cartel,” defenders of the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) make three errors: First, restricting federal funds to schools of social work is not authorized by the statute cited in the creation of NCWWI. Second, social work is not the only discipline engaged in child welfare, denying the emergence of Child Advocacy Studies as a competitor. Third, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are not implaus…
Susu: Capitalizing Development from the Bottom Up
Susu, a common way of saving money in the majority of developing countries, has migrated to developed nations. Originating in the 18th century in Ghana and Nigeria, susu is an indigenous method of microfinance, benefiting poor and minority groups. Significantly, susu relies on social capital as collateral, enhancing solidarity and building community. When American public assistance programs deny benefits to immigrants, susu becomes an important s…
Corporate Welfare: L'industrie des services sociaux et la réforme du « Welfare State » aux États-Unis
L'auteur analyse les transformations en cours dans le vaste système des services sociaux aux États-Unis. Réduction des dépenses, décentralisation des programmes constituent le principe de base de la philosophie conservatrice. Mais depuis peu, un nouveau thème est apparu, celui d'un rôle accru des initiatives privées dans le secteur des services sociaux. L'article analyse l'influence du secteur privé dans trois domaines : la sécurité du revenu, en…
Unordering Liberty: The Legacy of Frances Fox Piven
The Child Welfare Cartel
The probity of the Children’s Bureau’s National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI) is examined with respect to the status of child welfare as well as the performance of social work education. By requiring that funding go only to accredited schools of social work, which is not authorized by relevant provisions of the Social Security Act, NCWWI effectively establishes a cartel that excludes other disciplines. Alternatives to improve child we…
Are Payday Loans Really Evil? Controversy, Regulation, and Innovation in the Secondary Financial Services Market
Stagnant income and persistent debt have induced low- and middle-income households to rely on alternative financial services (AFS): buy-here-pay-here auto loans, check-cashers, payday loans, auto title loans, rent-to-own furniture and appliances, and pawnshops. A secondary financial services market has evolved to serve the secondary labor market, replete with trade associations as well as state and federal regulators. Mainstream financial institu…
The Consolidation of the Secondary Financial Services Market
Stagnant income and persistent debt have induced low- and middle-income households to rely on alternative financial services (AFS): buy-here-pay-here auto loans, check-cashers, payday loans, auto title loans, rent-to-own furniture and appliances, and pawnshops. A secondary financial services market has evolved to serve the secondary labor market, replete with trade associations as well as state and federal regulators. Mainstream financial institu…
Accountability in Higher Education and the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards, 2008
In recent decades, an accountability movement has swept through higher education with hundreds of colleges and universities subscribing to instruments that assess academic performance, among them the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA), the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), and the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA). Meanwhile, social work education has proceeded on a tangent, relying on a subjective framework, the Educational …
Evidence-Based Policy: Reorganizing Social Services Through Accountable Care Organizations and Social Impact Bonds
Economic austerity has provided the rationale for a transformation of social programs from unconditional entitlements to evidence-based policy (Edsall, 2012). This transition emphasizes accountability not only with respect to the cost of programs but outcomes as well. While cost–benefit analysis has been used in the past to evaluate specific initiatives, the next era of social policy institutionalizes evidence-based policy through new structures,…
Social Work Agonistes
Reinventing Social Work Accreditation
Accreditation under the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has contributed to the professional decline of social work. The lack of scholarship of the Board of Directors of CSWE compromises its decision making. The quality of the professional literature suffers from the weak scholarship of editors and referees. The caliber of deans and directors of social work educational programs is low with respect to their scholarship as well. Graduate stu…
Social Work Education in Wonderland: Stoesz and Karger Reply
The authors respond to the invited commentary addressing their paper “Reinventing Social Work Accreditation” published earlier in this issue. Many of the comments provided were sensible and sober appraisals of the critical state of social work education and of the profession, largely congruent with the authors' analysis. They judge the response from the Council on Social Work Education to be more dismissive, and representative of the attitudes an…
Quixote’s Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
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 how conservative think tanks arose to combat the do…
Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
"American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, an analysis of the ideological fight for control of America's 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 account documents how conservative think tanks arose to combat the dominance of liberal intell…
From Social Work to Human Services
Social work has forfeited its professional mandate and should be replaced by "human services." In three traditional areas of responsibility-child welfare, public welfare, and mental health-social work has failed to meet its societal obligation. Meanwhile the profession has used postmodern thought to justify a focus on internal constituency groups. A template for professional education in human services is proposed
The American Welfare State at Twilight
The triumph of George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election is further evidence of the waning viability of the American welfare state. Since 1980 various strains of conservatism have vied for control of domestic policy through the Republican party, the most recent variant being 'compassionate conservatism'. Democrats have responded by disavowing their liberal heritage and moving toward the centre. This reflects the replacement of a 'social mo…
A theory of children's services: Reflections on Epstein's indictment
Response to William Hughes
Journal Article Response to William Hughes Get access David Wolf, David Wolf Richmond, VA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar David Stoesz David Stoesz Richmond, VA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 4, July 2000, Page 383, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/45.4.383 Published: 01 July 2000
Social Workers' Political Participation
Journal Article Social Workers' Political Participation Get access David Stoesz David Stoesz Richmond, VA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 85–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/44.1.85-a Published: 01 January 1999
Reinventing Social Work Accreditation
Accreditation under the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has contributed to the professional decline of social work. The lack of scholarship of the Board of Directors of CSWE compromises its decision making. The quality of the professional literature suffers from the weak scholarship of editors and referees. The caliber of deans and directors of social work educational programs is low with respect to their scholarship as well. Graduate stu…
A Wake for the Welfare State: Social Welfare and the Neoconservative Challenge
Recent political developments portend a reformulation of the welfare state consistent with private-sector principles. Corporate reform of the government monopoly of social welfare is congruent with the interests of proprietary service providers while conflicting with the objectives of welfare bureaucrats. Traditional providers furnish rhetorical support to the neoconservative initiative. The consequences of this development include the introducti…
Welfare Capitalism: A New Approach to Poverty Policy
In response to the conservative triumph in welfare reform, “welfare capitalism” has been proposed as an agenda for alleviating poverty. Welfare capitalism is made up of three strategies: wage supplements, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, and direct supplementation of wages; asset building through Individual Development Accounts and microcredit; and community capitalism, demonstrated through Community Developm…
Corporate Welfare: The Third Stage of Welfare in the United States
Corporate involvement in social welfare represents a third stage in the evolution of welfare institutions in the United States, following the voluntary sector and the welfare state. An examination of the largest health and welfare corporations reveals rapid growth and consolidation in all markets--nursing homes, hospital management, health maintenance organizations, child care, and home care. The author considers the implications of continued exp…
Evidence-Based Policy: Reorganizing Social Services Through Accountable Care Organizations and Social Impact Bonds
Economic austerity has provided the rationale for a transformation of social programs from unconditional entitlements to evidence-based policy (Edsall, 2012). This transition emphasizes accountability not only with respect to the cost of programs but outcomes as well. While cost–benefit analysis has been used in the past to evaluate specific initiatives, the next era of social policy institutionalizes evidence-based policy through new structures,…
Social Work Education in Wonderland: Stoesz and Karger Reply
The authors respond to the invited commentary addressing their paper “Reinventing Social Work Accreditation” published earlier in this issue. Many of the comments provided were sensible and sober appraisals of the critical state of social work education and of the profession, largely congruent with the authors' analysis. They judge the response from the Council on Social Work Education to be more dismissive, and representative of the attitudes an…
The Corporatisation of the United States Welfare State
This article examines the increasing importance of human service corporations within the American welfare state. In particular, the article investigates the historical and philosophical background of the corporatisation of welfare, the expanding social welfare market, and the scope of human service corporations. The consequence of corporatisation, including standardisation, commodification, and the oligarchic nature of human services are also exa…
Social Work as Mediocracy: A Response to Gambrill, Esptein, Cabin, and Teasley, Dettlaff, and Abrams
Authoritarian nationalism and social work
Despite predictions that liberal democracy was ascendent as a paradigm for governance in the contemporary era, the world has witnessed an alarming rise in authoritarian nationalism. A seeming preference for open and transparent models of plural democratic government has been challenged by the global advance of despotic and repressive regimes that are organized around racial, religious, and nationalist themes. Social work, grounded in the practice…
Human Service Cartels: The Soft Repression of the Mediocracy
Since the Progressive Era, professions have established cartels, allegedly to advance public wellbeing. Mental health, public welfare, and children’s services document damage to citizens even as the professions serving vulnerable populations have flourished. Abetted by civil service requirements, state licensing, university training programs, and accreditation, human service cartels have been immune from public accountability. Yet, economic desta…
Are Payday Loans Really Evil? Controversy, Regulation, and Innovation in the Secondary Financial Services Market
Stagnant income and persistent debt have induced low- and middle-income households to rely on alternative financial services (AFS): buy-here-pay-here auto loans, check-cashers, payday loans, auto title loans, rent-to-own furniture and appliances, and pawnshops. A secondary financial services market has evolved to serve the secondary labor market, replete with trade associations as well as state and federal regulators. Mainstream financial institu…
Accountability in Higher Education and the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards, 2008
In recent decades, an accountability movement has swept through higher education with hundreds of colleges and universities subscribing to instruments that assess academic performance, among them the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA), the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), and the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA). Meanwhile, social work education has proceeded on a tangent, relying on a subjective framework, the Educational …
From Social Work to Human Services
Social work has forfeited its professional mandate and should be replaced by "human services." In three traditional areas of responsibility-child welfare, public welfare, and mental health-social work has failed to meet its societal obligation. Meanwhile the profession has used postmodern thought to justify a focus on internal constituency groups. A template for professional education in human services is proposed
The American Welfare State at Twilight
The triumph of George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election is further evidence of the waning viability of the American welfare state. Since 1980 various strains of conservatism have vied for control of domestic policy through the Republican party, the most recent variant being 'compassionate conservatism'. Democrats have responded by disavowing their liberal heritage and moving toward the centre. This reflects the replacement of a 'social mo…
Welfare behaviorism
The Decline of the Americal Welfare State
A Wake for the Welfare State: Social Welfare and the Neoconservative Challenge
Recent political developments portend a reformulation of the welfare state consistent with private-sector principles. Corporate reform of the government monopoly of social welfare is congruent with the interests of proprietary service providers while conflicting with the objectives of welfare bureaucrats. Traditional providers furnish rhetorical support to the neoconservative initiative. The consequences of this development include the introducti…
Defeminizing Social Policy
Social policy initiatives by the evangelical right and neoconservative movements are reversing liberal programs that have benefited women. This represents an attempt to defeminize social policy. Essential to this transformation are theoretical interpretations of economics and sociology which, combined with religious conservatism, portend the restoration of patriarchal culture. The ideology guiding the defeminizing of social policy is so pervasive…
The Welfare Crisis of Central America
The crisis of Central America, fundamentally due to social injustice, is exacerbated as the Reagan administration seeks a "military polution" to political problems of the region. A humane approach to alleviating the devastating poverty of Central America necessitates reconciling two strategies of national development: a techno-economic strategy and a sociopolitical strategy. Both strategies leave important issues unresolved. The prospect of impro…
Corporate Welfare: The Third Stage of Welfare in the United States
Corporate involvement in social welfare represents a third stage in the evolution of welfare institutions in the United States, following the voluntary sector and the welfare state. An examination of the largest health and welfare corporations reveals rapid growth and consolidation in all markets--nursing homes, hospital management, health maintenance organizations, child care, and home care. The author considers the implications of continued exp…
Time Capsule
Journal Article Time Capsule Get access David Stoesz David Stoesz policyAmerica, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 6, November-December 1986, Pages 480–481, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/31.6.480 Published: 01 November 1986
Privatization: Reforming the Welfare State
The American social welfare institution is in transition. Constituencies of the welfare state-the public, clients, and professionals-have registered dissatisfaction with traditional methods of providing services. Analysts from liberal and conservative think tanks have proposed relying less on government and more on the private sector to provide for welfare. To a substantial degree privatization is already evident in several areas: the expansion o…
Policy Gambit: Conservative Think Tanks Take on the Welfare State
Conservative policy institutes have reevaluated their position regarding welfare and begun to present proposals to change social welfare policy. Instrumental in this development are the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, conservative think tanks which have developed projects for the purpose of making social policy more consonant with conservative philosophy. If progressive organizations are to reassert their role in the po…
Human service corporations and the welfare state
Mainstreaming the Underclass
The underclass has become a prominent issue in American social welfare, yet welfare professionals have focused on maintenance as opposed to mainstreaming strategies in working with this population. A mainstreaming strategy would emphasize individual incentives, community reconstruction, and program reorganization, focusing on the social disorganization of underclass communities. The essay details specific programs in each of these areas: transiti…
A New Paradigm for Social Welfare
The American welfare state has been contained by several developments that have influenced social policy: the traditionalist movement, neoliberal ideology, and the budget deficit. These are evident in the minimal welfare reform of the Family Support Act of 1988. A new paradigm for organizing thinking about American social welfare is proposed around themes that have become central to discussions of social policy: productivity, reciprocity, communi…
The Corporatisation of the United States Welfare State
This article examines the increasing importance of human service corporations within the American welfare state. In particular, the article investigates the historical and philosophical background of the corporatisation of welfare, the expanding social welfare market, and the scope of human service corporations. The consequence of corporatisation, including standardisation, commodification, and the oligarchic nature of human services are also exa…
The Fall of the Industrial City: The Reagan Legacy for Urban Policy
The Reagan presidency reversed a half-century of federal aid to cities. Poor minority comnnunities were particularly hard-hit, since this was accompanied by a white flight to the suburbs and the replacement of better paying industrial jobs requiring little education with poorer paying service jobs requiring iore education. Meanwhile wealthy communities prospered. To address urgent social problems, urban politicians are advocating strategies such …
The Decline of the Americal Welfare State
A New Mission in Social Policy
From Welfare State to Social Compacts: Welfare Transformation in Poland
Recent social, political, and economic development have strained the credibility of conventional constructs for organizing social welfare. In contrast to the "welfare state" construct that evolved during the industrial era, a "Social Compact" model is presented as more consonant with a postindustrial context. Features of the social compact are discussed, as well as its applicability to Poland
The Politics of Child Abuse in America
The recent surge in reports of child abuse has led Costin, Karger, and Stoesz to examine whether our current responses to the problem are adequate. In this book they trace the cultural, social, and legal factors that have shaped the history of child abuse and responses to it since the 1870s. The public response to child abuse is detailed, from the creation of the first Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the late 19th century, to t…
Rethinking child welfare services: The children's authority
Learning from family preservation
Welfare behaviorism
Proactive Rhetoric
The American welfare state is coming apart. In The Rhetoric of Reaction, Albert 0. Hirschman explained how conservatives had used three themes to counter liberal expansion of social and economic rights: perversity, futility, and jeopardy. This essay expands Hirschman's formulation retrospectively by identifying the liberal antecedents---adequacy, equality, and regulation-that prompted the recent conservative assault on the American welfare state.…
Social Workers' Political Participation
Journal Article Social Workers' Political Participation Get access David Stoesz David Stoesz Richmond, VA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 44, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 85–86, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/44.1.85-a Published: 01 January 1999
Welfare Capitalism: A New Approach to Poverty Policy
In response to the conservative triumph in welfare reform, “welfare capitalism” has been proposed as an agenda for alleviating poverty. Welfare capitalism is made up of three strategies: wage supplements, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, and direct supplementation of wages; asset building through Individual Development Accounts and microcredit; and community capitalism, demonstrated through Community Developm…
Unraveling welfare reform
A theory of children's services: Reflections on Epstein's indictment
Response to William Hughes
Journal Article Response to William Hughes Get access David Wolf, David Wolf Richmond, VA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar David Stoesz David Stoesz Richmond, VA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 4, July 2000, Page 383, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/45.4.383 Published: 01 July 2000
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