Edward D Berkowitz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 318520 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Edward D Berkowitz |
| NOMBRES | Edward D |
| APELLIDO | Berkowitz |
| FIRMA | BERKOWITZ E D |
| AFILIACIONES | George Washington University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics
Social Welfare History in the Age of Diversity
This policy perspective discusses three important social welfare programs—Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Temporary Aid to Needy Families—and offers an explanation of how they have expanded over time
The High Cost of Good Intentions
This historical overview of federal entitlement programs explains how in 2015 more than half of all households in the United States—more than 170 million people—received assistance from a federal entitlement program. Although entitlement programs date from the Revolutionary War, their period of greatest growth came after 1946. Milestones along the way included civil war pensions, the Social Security Act (1935), and the Social Security Amendments …
S cott K aufman . Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party
Often portrayed as a genial politician whose chief talent was getting along well with others, Gerald Ford had the skill and ambition to serve thirteen terms in Congress, to become the House Republican leader, and to rise to the presidency. Scott Kaufman provides us with the first scholarly biography that covers Ford’s entire life. Although he does not change the general impression of Ford as an amiable man with a lifelong ambition to become Speak…
The Other Welfare
The Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's daring social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The new program provided cash benefits to needy elderly,…
Getting to the Affordable Care Act
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Karen M. Tani . States of Dependency
States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935–1972 marks a significant intervention, as the younger academics like to say, into the history of U.S. social welfare policy. In a book sure to influence future scholarship, Karen M. Tani reframes the story of the Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) program so that it becomes an exercise in statecraft rather than social control. Perhaps her most important contribution is to revitaliz…
Martha Derthick and the Art of Policy History
This essay examines how Martha Derthick creatively combined history and political science to produce influential analyses of key public programs, such as Social Security
Legacies of the War on Poverty
Journal Article Legacies of the War on Poverty Get access Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2013. xii, 309 pp. Paper, $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 997–998, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau529 Published: 01 December 2014
The Other Welfare
This book offers the first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), from its origins as part of President Nixon's social reform efforts to its pivotal role in the politics of the Clinton administration. Enacted into law in 1972, SSI marked the culmination of liberal social and economic policies that began during the New Deal. The new program provided cash benefits to needy elderly, blind, and disabled individuals. Because of t…
The State and the Stork
How do population trends affect the nation's mood and hence its politics and public policies? This book considers that difficult question by concentrating on the links between economics and demography. Derek S. Hoff asserts that “modern demography was ... born of a Malthusian consensus that fused natural and economic science” (p. 61). Nations, including the United States, used the resulting fusion to identify their “optimum” levels of population.…
One Nation Under Aarp
MATTHEW C. EHRLICH. Radio Utopia
American radio emerged in 1945 as an acclaimed medium that had brought a sense of immediacy to a war fought in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Between 1945 and 1951, radio news and documentary faced the difficult tasks of adjusting to the reality of the Cold War and to the presence of a nascent television industry, promoted by the radio networks, that challenged radio for its audience and influence. In this book, Matthew C. Ehrlich analyzes what he cal…
The Scenic Road to Nowhere
This historical essay looks at the changing meaning of health insurance over time and explains how broad economic and political forces have created that meaning at any one time but that these forces interact with the contingencies of the moment to produce a particular outcome. That outcome in turn influences the subsequent development of health insurance
Ernest R. May
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Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race
Journal Article Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty Get access Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty by Judith Russell. New York, Columbia University Press, 2003. 304 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Edward D. Berkowitz Edward D. Berkowitz George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarter…
The Disability Rights Movement
An antipathy toward the medical model characterizes the disability rights movement. Instead of emphasizing the notion of deficit, as in the definition of disability as a medically demonstrable impairment that leads to a functional limitation, the leaders of the movement choose to highlight the concept of difference. In this view, people with disabilities are not deficient so much as they are different from others. Since differences are, in a sens…
Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly
This is an historical exploration of the US pensioner movements of the late 1920s through to the early 1950s, and the insights they offer policy analysts and researchers on how the forthcoming retirement of the Baby-Boom generation could proceed
That's Not What We Meant to Do
Someone once remarked that Prohibition failed because no one realized how innately American it was to drink. A similar disjunction of expectations and results pervades this fascinating study of five key areas of modern public policy—welfare, civil rights, mental health, immigration, and campaign finance reform. In a series of short essays, Steven M. Gillon demonstrates how institutions, politics, and events transform laws in unintended ways. Circ…
New Deal Medicine
In a brief but compelling monograph, Michael Grey, who is both a practicing physician and a historian of medicine, attempts to give the medical programs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) their "historical due" (p. 168). Not only does he detail the development of health-care cooperatives and other forms of prepaid health plans in rural America that defined the FSA's medical program in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he also highlights the …
Social Perceptions of People with Disabilities in History (review)
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
Research and Politics in Policymaking for Social Security
BRIAN Gratton's article (1997) in this issue gives us the unsurprising news that there is a politics of statistics — that research is not a neutral form of fact-gathering but rather a political weapon. His article vividly indicates that the Social Security Board used tainted data support its efforts establish the constitutionality of the program in 1937. Indeed, Mr. Justice Cardozo's opinion provided an eloquent defense of the program, arguing th…
Turning Points in Social Security
Journal Article Turning Points in Social Security: From “Cruel Hoax” to “Sacred Entitlement” Get access Turning Points in Social Security: From “Cruel Hoax” to “Sacred Entitlement” by Sheryl R. Tynes. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1996. 253 pp. $39.50. Edward D. Berkowitz Edward D. Berkowitz George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 112, Iss…
Arthur J. Goldberg
Journal Article Arthur J. Goldberg: New Deal Liberal. By David L. Stebenne. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. x, 539 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-507105-0.) Get access Edward D. Berkowitz Edward D. Berkowitz George Washington University, Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 281–282, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952849 Published: 01 Ju…
Man of the People
Journal Article Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. By Alonzo L. Hamby. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvi, 760 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-504546-7.) Get access Edward Berkowitz Edward Berkowitz George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1073–1074, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945763 Publis…
Disability and Rehabilitation Policy
Creating the Welfare State
Journal Article Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform. By Edward Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid. (New York: Praeger, 1980. xvii + 185 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $21.95.) Get access Stuart D. Brandes Stuart D. Brandes University of Wisconsin Center, Rock County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Page …
Social History and Social Policy
Journal Article Social History and Social Policy. Ed. by David J. Rothman and Stanton Wheeler. (New York: Academic, 1981. xii + 336 pp. Chart, notes, and index. $27.50.) Get access Edward D. Berkowitz Edward D. Berkowitz University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 640–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901949 Published…
Businessman and Bureaucrat
Between 1900 and 1940, organized industry and the federal government, acting in conjunction with the states, created an American social welfare system. The two major participants in this process evolved along similar lines during this period. Both began as simple organizations and developed into complex, functional bureaucracies. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the federal government did not exist as a social welfare entity. Private co…
Disabled Policy
Journal Article Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. By Edward D. Berkowitz. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 280 pp. $24.95.) Get access James F. Gardner James F. Gardner Education Center of Sheppard Pratt Hospital Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 640–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887949 Published…
The Survival of Workers' Compensation
Workers' compensation began in the progressive era as a compromise between management and labor. During the New Deal and the Second World War, the program met with challenges severe enough to bring its very existence into question. Despite these difficulties, workers' compensation has survived to the point where it now flourishes. The history of the program teaches lessons about the adaptability of old social programs to modern conditions
Put to Work
Journal Article Put to Work: Relief Programs in the Great Depression. By Nancy E. Rose. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. 144 pp. Cloth, $22.00, ISBN 0-85345-870-7. Paper, $10.00, ISBN 0-85345-871-5.) Get access Edward Berkowitz Edward Berkowitz George Washington University, Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 324, https://do…
Commissioning the Future, Getting the Present
Man of the People
Journal Article Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. By Alonzo L. Hamby. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvi, 760 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-504546-7.) Get access Edward Berkowitz Edward Berkowitz George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1073–1074, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945763 Publis…
Save the Babies
A Historical Preface to the Americans with Disabilities Act
On 26 July 1990, President George Bush signed an ambitious new civil rights law at an emotional ceremony held on the South Lawn of the White House. Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA, PL 101–336) brought civil rights protections for people with disabilities to a level of parity with civil rights protections already enjoyed by racial minorities and by women. What accounted for a Republican administration enthusiastically endorsing…
How to think about the welfare state
One Comprehensive System? A Historical Perspective on Federal Disability Policy
We examine the historical development of federal disability policy; we assess the scope of the social security disability system, as well as inconsistencies between that attempt at a comprehensive system and programs such as vocational rehabilitation, veterans' programs, and special entitlements for blind people; and we conclude with a list of the questions that our analysis raises for the conduct of disability studies
Disability Insurance and the Limits of American History
Research Article| April 01 1986 Disability Insurance and the Limits of American History Edward D. Berkowitz, Edward D. Berkowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Wendy Wolff Wendy Wolff Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1986) 8 (2): 65–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377433 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementar…
The Historian as Policy Analyst
Research Article| April 01 1979 The Historian as Policy Analyst: The Challenge of HEW Edward D. Berkowitz Edward D. Berkowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1979) 1 (3): 17–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377530 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Getting to the Affordable Care Act
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Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race
Journal Article Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty Get access Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty by Judith Russell. New York, Columbia University Press, 2003. 304 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Edward D. Berkowitz Edward D. Berkowitz George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarter…
Welfare, Women, and Race
JUST TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE RODNEY KING VERDICT SPARKED THE uprising in South Central Los Angeles, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan scolded President Bush and Vice President Quayle for racializing political debate through their frequent incendiary blasts against dependency. Moynihan charged that the Bush administration had seized upon welfare a focus of resentment and a code word for you-know-what. ' Moynihan's scolding went unheeded. In the afterm…
Disabled Policy
This paper analyzes the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and argues that the Act continues a historical tradition, expressed in generations of disability policies, of using the policy process to soften the conflict between the rhetoric of rights and the realities of economies. The paper emphasizes the continuities between present and past disability policies and explains why many analysts, including the author, did not anticip…
Bringing the Welfare State Back In
The Social Welfare History State
The Politics of Social Security Expansion
In 1956 President Eisenhower signed an amendment to the social security program that created disability insurance. His action marked the end of a sharp debate over disability insurance and the beginning of two decades of consensus concerning the program. Thirty years later, however, major issues have arisen in the disability insurance program that closely resemble the disputes that preceded its passage. Consensus no longer prevails about the goal…
Public History, Academic History, and Policy Analysis
MUCH OF THE COMMENTARY on public history centers on the places in which historians practice their craft; in this article, I want to look at the products that historians produce. I will present an essay that began as a piece of applied work for public clients, became an academic essay, and then evolved into its present form as both an essay and a commentary upon an essay. I will use this form of presentation to argue that public historians can mak…
Welfare Reform in the 1950s
Contrary to the impression left by historians, neither welfare expansion nor welfare reform died in the 1950s. Even conservatives believed in the necessity of federal spending for welfare. Disagreements came over the proper ways to spend federal money. The Eisenhower administration propagated a rehabilitation approach in an attempt to use federal money to end individual, state, and local dependence on the federal government. The administration's …
Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period
Businessman and Bureaucrat
Between 1900 and 1940, organized industry and the federal government, acting in conjunction with the states, created an American social welfare system. The two major participants in this process evolved along similar lines during this period. Both began as simple organizations and developed into complex, functional bureaucracies. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the federal government did not exist as a social welfare entity. Private co…
The Historian as Policy Analyst
Research Article| April 01 1979 The Historian as Policy Analyst: The Challenge of HEW Edward D. Berkowitz Edward D. Berkowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1979) 1 (3): 17–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377530 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Welfare Reform in the 1950s
Contrary to the impression left by historians, neither welfare expansion nor welfare reform died in the 1950s. Even conservatives believed in the necessity of federal spending for welfare. Disagreements came over the proper ways to spend federal money. The Eisenhower administration propagated a rehabilitation approach in an attempt to use federal money to end individual, state, and local dependence on the federal government. The administration's …
Mary E. Switzer
A bstract . Mary E. Switzer (1901‐1972), a federal civil servant from 1921 to 1970, had a career which provides a case study of entrepreneurship within a bureaucracy. At first a staffer in progressive era social agencies, she became an assistant to Josephine Roche, well known advocate of government social programs. At first Switzer opposed federal health programs, believing that centralization of control would harm them. Then she became an advoca…
"Bureaucrats as "Social Engineers
Historians interested in 20th century American reform often seek to analyze the ideologies of political leaders separately from the institutions that these same leaders created. Such emphases on ideas, as opposed to actions, has, for example, led "revisionist" American historians to argue that the presidencies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt were "conceptually continuous." Our examination of the major social welfare programs undertake…
The Federal Government and the Emergence of Rehabilitation Medicine
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEdward D. BerkowitzThe author has been John F. Kennedy Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. During 1980 he served on the staff of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, specializing in social welfare policy
Social History and Social Policy
Journal Article Social History and Social Policy. Ed. by David J. Rothman and Stanton Wheeler. (New York: Academic, 1981. xii + 336 pp. Chart, notes, and index. $27.50.) Get access Edward D. Berkowitz Edward D. Berkowitz University of Massachusetts, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 640–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901949 Published…
Creating the Welfare State
Journal Article Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform. By Edward Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid. (New York: Praeger, 1980. xvii + 185 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $21.95.) Get access Stuart D. Brandes Stuart D. Brandes University of Wisconsin Center, Rock County Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Page …
Creating the Welfare State
Disability and Rehabilitation Policy
Commissioning the Future, Getting the Present
Politics as Process
The Survival of Workers' Compensation
Workers' compensation began in the progressive era as a compromise between management and labor. During the New Deal and the Second World War, the program met with challenges severe enough to bring its very existence into question. Despite these difficulties, workers' compensation has survived to the point where it now flourishes. The history of the program teaches lessons about the adaptability of old social programs to modern conditions
History, Public Policy and Reality
The Willowbrook Wars
Journal Article The Willowbrook Wars. By David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman. (New York: Harper and Row, 1984. x + 405 pp. Notes, sources and methods, and index. $27.95.) Get access Edward Berkowitz Edward Berkowitz George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1, June 1985, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903832 Published: 01 June 198…
Widening the Field
Disability Insurance and the Limits of American History
Research Article| April 01 1986 Disability Insurance and the Limits of American History Edward D. Berkowitz, Edward D. Berkowitz Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Wendy Wolff Wendy Wolff Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1986) 8 (2): 65–82. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377433 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementar…
The Making of Rehabilitation
Public Policy toward Disabled Workers
The Wounded Soldiers of Industry
Public History, Academic History, and Policy Analysis
MUCH OF THE COMMENTARY on public history centers on the places in which historians practice their craft; in this article, I want to look at the products that historians produce. I will present an essay that began as a piece of applied work for public clients, became an academic essay, and then evolved into its present form as both an essay and a commentary upon an essay. I will use this form of presentation to argue that public historians can mak…
Disabled Policy
Social Security after Fifty
Journal Article Social Security after Fifty: Successes and Failures. Ed. by Edward D. Berkowitz. (Westport: Greenwood, 1987. viii + 168 pp. $29.95.) Get access Earl R. Curry Earl R. Curry Hope College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 1, June 1988, Pages 321–322, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889794 Published: 01 June 1988
Disabled Policy
Journal Article Disabled Policy: America's Programs for the Handicapped. By Edward D. Berkowitz. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 280 pp. $24.95.) Get access James F. Gardner James F. Gardner Education Center of Sheppard Pratt Hospital Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 640–641, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887949 Published…
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