Neil Gilbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3631018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Gilbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilbert |
| SIGNATURE | GILBERT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4576-7312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 84 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Socioeconomic barriers and educational pathways of unaccompanied foreign minors in Europe's southern border
This article investigates social vulnerability, legal challenges, and migratory experiences of unaccompanied foreign minors entering Europe via Melilla, a Spanish city in northern Africa. A mixed‐methods approach integrates statistical analysis and qualitative research, including natural language processing on 1274 records and 1200 in‐depth interviews. The theoretical framework combines social vulnerability theory, the child‐rights perspective, a…
Science advice for international governance – An evidence-based perspective on the role of SCAR in the Antarctic Treaty System
Knowledge brokers are essential for science-based international governance. Recently, the objectivity of the Antarctic Treaty System’s (ATS) primary knowledge broker, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), has been questioned, both in discussions at ATS meetings and now in a recent published perspective. Much of the concern is based on a misunderstanding of SCAR’s history, structure and internal operations, and of its interactions…
The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy: A Life-Course Perspective
The Oxford International Handbook of Family Policy has two main aims: to identify key developments globally in regard to the forms and modalities of relevant policies, and to take a critical look at the developments regarding those policies. The overall goal is to uncover the extent to which concerns about the family and the role and practices of parents are mobilizing public policy and related agency in different parts of the world. The Handbook…
Oxford Handbook of Family Policy: A Life-Course Perspective
Family life and the demographic transition in Mena countries: Implications for Social Policy
This paper reviews recent demographic and familial changes in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), which parallel the developments associated with the second demographic transition that has transformed population profiles and family life in the more developed OECD countries. The emerging needs for family-oriented policies are analysed in relation to these changes. And the current levels of social protection in the MENA region are a…
Integrating Micro and Macro Practice: An Evaluation of the Policy Advocacy Course
Policy advocacy is a professional competency in the Council of Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Therefore, preparing social work students to engage in political arenas is an integral part of social work education. This study presents an evaluation of the policy advocacy course using a pre/posttest research design (N = 154), and examines the theoretical link between the course and the change in student…
Preparation and Response to Covid-19: An Exploratory Analysis of Policy Response Spending and Health Expenditures in 20 OECD Countries
This article examines the comparative impact of COVID-19 in terms of the number of cases per capita and the per capita mortality rate and analyzes the relationships between these impact estimates and three policy measures in 20 OECD countries, controlling for the population over age 65. The policy measures involve public and private health expenditures prior to the pandemic onset and per capita fiscal expenditures devoted to policies designed to …
Cognitive Dissonance and Fertility Rates: A Comparative Analysis of Attitudes toward the Gender Division of Labour in East Asian and Western Industrial Societies
Based on data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), this study examines the extent to which cognitive dissonance regarding egalitarian attitudes toward the gender division of labour are associated with fertility rates in sixteen societies, representing Anglo American, Northern European, Western European and East Asian regimes. The findings show that although levels of support for gender equality in the realms of the family and the …
Family-Sensitive Policy: Broadening the Conceptual Lens for Evaluating Social Protection
Modernizing the Korean Welfare State: Towards the Productive Welfare Model
Understanding the values and perceptions of base personnel to improve conservation management and policy in Antarctica
Is it all going south? Four future scenarios for Antarctica
The future is uncertain for Antarctica, with many possibilities – some more plausible, others more preferable. Indeed, the region and its governance regime may be reaching (or may have reached) a crossroads moment as a result of a series of challenges, including the changing Antarctic climate and environment, increasing human activity, shifting values among Antarctic states and a low-cost, somewhat benign governance regime (the Antarctic Treaty S…
Institutionalized Discontent
Examining past experiences of student activism at Berkeley this article suggests that the present storm of political correctness sweeping American universities represents more than just another of the periodic crusades that have disrupted academic life over the years. The current wave of activism is different largely because the ever-present minorities of militant faculty and student activists have gained significant reinforcements in their strug…
Restructuring the Mixed Economy of Welfare: Three Modes of Privatization
Since the early‐1990s arrangements for social protection in most of the advanced industrialized nations have undergone a series of policy reforms that are restructuring the mixed economy of modern welfare states. This paper reviews several fundamental reasons for these changes and their substantive character, focusing on the increasing role of the private sector in the finance and delivery of welfare state activity. Three basic modes to increase …
Qué puede aportar el trabajo social en el siglo XXI? Perspectivas desde USA y España
En este artículo, analizamos los principales retos que afrontan nuestras sociedades, y el papel que puede jugar el Trabajo Social como disciplina científica y como profesión de ayuda, prestando especial atención a la situación de España y de los Estados Unidos de América
Tendencias del bienestar social en las sociedades occidentales: La privatización y el reto del Trabajo Social
Este artículo analiza varios aspectos claves de la evolución del panorama de los estados de bienestar modernos, las principales fuerzas sociales que impulsan este cambio, y cómo el cambio es pertinente para el futuro de la práctica del Trabajo Social. Las fuerzas sociales que impulsan el cambio son factores estructurales tales como la transición demográfica y la globalización de la economía, así como variables socio-políticas que implican una com…
Public attitudes toward government responsibility for child care: The impact of individual characteristics and welfare regimes
Citizenship in the Enabling State: The Changing Balance of Rights and Obilgations
This chapter analyzes the transformation of the welfare state, the reasons for this change, its substantive character, and implications for social citizenship. The transformation is seen as driven by structural and sociopolitical pressures generated from four sources: demographic shifts, globalization of the economy, knowledge of unanticipated consequences of past policies, and growing faith in the market economy. The changes that emerge involve …
Public Attitudes and Gender Policy Regimes: Coherence and Stability in Hard Times
Drawing upon data from the European Social Survey on public attitudes and social welfare, this paper analyzes the extent to which attitudes toward gender equality in work and family life vary among 13 countries which represent different welfare regimes. The analysis also examines how these attitudes have changed with the onset of the economic recession in 2007. The findings suggest that public attitudes toward gender issues are largely consistent…
A comparative study of child welfare systems: Abstract orientations and concrete results
Child Protection Systems: International Trends and Orientations
?Child Protection Systems is a comparative study of the social policies and professional practices that frame societal responses to the problems of child maltreatment in ten countries: USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway. Focusing on the developments in policy and practice since the mid-1990s, this volume provides a detailed, up-to-date analysis of the similarities and differences in how ch…
From frozen continent to tourism hotspot? Five decades of Antarctic tourism development and management, and a glimpse into the future
Welfare states amid economic turmoil: Adjusting Work-Oriented Policy
This article analyses the socioeconomic context within which a range of active labour market policies (ALMPs) were initiated in many countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the extent to which these measures had an impact on unemployment over the last several decades prior to the contraction of economic growth in 2008. Examining how the downturn of the economy has altered this context, the analysis goes …
Dimensions of social welfare policy
United in diversity?: Comparing social models in Europe and America
Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility
This book is the outgrowth of a large‐scale comparative project on the changing landscape of the welfare state initiated by the author in 1997. In it, it is argued that the changes in welfare policy being witnessed in Europe and the USA are not marginal adjustments to the borders of the welfare state, but represent a fundamental shift or transformation in the design and philosophy of social protection. The author argues that there has been a turn…
A comparative study of child welfare systems: Abstract orientations and concrete results
The Transformation of Social Services
Over a relatively short period of fifteen years, there have been significant changes in the clientele, provisions, delivery, financing, and planning of social services in the United States. The collective impact of these changes has brought social services to the threshold of a new era; it is an era in which more consumers from all classes, more types of social service agencies, and more state and local governments have a greater stake than ever …
Analyzing Welfare Effort: An Appraisal of Comparative Methods
How do we measure and rate the social welfare efforts of nations? Most people consider the U.S. and Japan welfare laggards when compared with European countries. This view derives from a widely used measure of “welfare effort”-direct government outlays for social programs as the percentage of a nation's gross domestic product (GDP). This article challenges several assumptions implicit in the conventional measure and suggests an alternative approa…
From frozen continent to tourism hotspot? Five decades of Antarctic tourism development and management, and a glimpse into the future
Advocacy Research and Social Policy
Advocacy research-empirical investigations of social problems by people who are deeply concerned about those problems-has a long and honorable history, exemplified by the considerable influence of Michael Harrington's The Other America on federal antipoverty policies in the 1960s. Often, however, perhaps for understandable psychological reasons, advocacy has taken precedence to research, and results have been exaggerated or magnified. Claims in t…
The Least Generous Welfare State? A Case of Blind Empiricism
Comparative analyses of modern welfare states rely heavily on measures of social expenditure, which have been developed and refined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. These measures are used to assess the relative degrees of welfare effort, generosity and social protection afforded by welfare states. A critical analysis of the most rigorous and widely used measures of social expenditure reveals three fundamental issues,…
European measures of poverty and “social exclusion”: Material deprivation, consumption, and life satisfaction
Welfare state regimes and family policy: A longitudinal analysis
The primary aim of the article is to access the extent to which welfare state regimes support distinct family policies across OECD (Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development) countries and over time. Focusing in particular on the work of Esping‐Andersen we address the following questions: (i) What is the relation between de‐commodification and de‐familialisation? (ii) Are there distinct welfare state regimes that support different le…
From entitlements to incentives: The changing philosophy of social protection
In recent years policies for social protection initially designed for purposes of income maintenance have come to place increasing emphasis on the reintegration of welfare beneficiaries into the labour force. This paper describes a range of initiatives in public assistance, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and public pensions, which link social benefits with incentives to work. These measures are seen as part of a broader pattern of …
Public attitudes toward government responsibility for child care: The impact of individual characteristics and welfare regimes
US Welfare Reform: Rewriting the Social Contract
This paper analyses recent developments in US welfare policy and their implications for future reforms. The analysis begins by examining how the enactment of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programme in 1996 changed the essential character of public assistance and the major social forces that accounted for this fundamental shift in US welfare policy. It then shows how the most recent welfare reforms under the Deficit Reduction …
Is it all going south? Four future scenarios for Antarctica
The future is uncertain for Antarctica, with many possibilities – some more plausible, others more preferable. Indeed, the region and its governance regime may be reaching (or may have reached) a crossroads moment as a result of a series of challenges, including the changing Antarctic climate and environment, increasing human activity, shifting values among Antarctic states and a low-cost, somewhat benign governance regime (the Antarctic Treaty S…
Public Attitudes and Gender Policy Regimes: Coherence and Stability in Hard Times
Drawing upon data from the European Social Survey on public attitudes and social welfare, this paper analyzes the extent to which attitudes toward gender equality in work and family life vary among 13 countries which represent different welfare regimes. The analysis also examines how these attitudes have changed with the onset of the economic recession in 2007. The findings suggest that public attitudes toward gender issues are largely consistent…
Welfare states amid economic turmoil: Adjusting Work-Oriented Policy
This article analyses the socioeconomic context within which a range of active labour market policies (ALMPs) were initiated in many countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the extent to which these measures had an impact on unemployment over the last several decades prior to the contraction of economic growth in 2008. Examining how the downturn of the economy has altered this context, the analysis goes …
Capitalism and the Welfare State: Dilemmas of Social Benevolence
Capitalism and the welfare state : dilemmas of social benevolence , Capitalism and the welfare state : dilemmas of social benevolence , کتابخانه دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Welfare for Profit: Moral, Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
Since the 1960s there has been an increasing number of proprietary agencies engaged in the delivery of social services in the United States. This development has generally been greeted with disfavour by welfare state advocates. Various arguments have been put forward against welfare for profit on moral, empirical and theoretical grounds. This paper analyzes these arguments and proposes several basic conditions that would seem to have significant …
The Plight of Universal Social Services
In the early 1960s, the motivating theme of social services in the American welfare state was reduction of economic dependency. At that time services were highly selective, aimed mainly at poor people. Between 1960 and 1980 there was a drift toward univeralism, as the welfare state expanded to serve an increasing number of middle-class groups. This expansion of the welfare state was related to several social and demographic trends, and was accomp…
Family life and the demographic transition in Mena countries: Implications for Social Policy
This paper reviews recent demographic and familial changes in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), which parallel the developments associated with the second demographic transition that has transformed population profiles and family life in the more developed OECD countries. The emerging needs for family-oriented policies are analysed in relation to these changes. And the current levels of social protection in the MENA region are a…
Cultural Diversity and Sexual Abuse Prevention
This study addresses the question, How do lessons about touching and privacy frequently taught to children in sexual abuse prevention programs correspond to acceptable patterns of intimacy among families from different ethnic groups? Data on patterns of family intimacy dealing with bathing practices, sleeping arrangements, and physical contact were gathered from a survey of 364 mothers representing six ethnic groups: African Americans, Cambodians…
Policy issues in primary prevention
Journal Article Policy issues in primary prevention Get access Neil Gilbert, Ph.D. Neil Gilbert, Ph.D. Professor of Social Welfare School of Social Welfare, University of CaliforniaBerkeley The author wishes to thank Harry Specht for his critical reading and helpful comments on an earlier version of this article. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Symposium on Issues in Social Work Education, Graduate Sc…
The future of welfare capitalism
Demographic Correlates of Citizen Participation: An Analysis of Race, Community Size, and Citizen Influence
Studies of relationships between the size and racial composition of communities and the impact of citizen participation on local decision making in community development programs have produced contradictory results. This paper reviews and attempts to assess these conflicting findings in light of data based on the citizen participation ex- periences in the Model Cities Program nationwide. Analysis of the Model Cities data reveals (a) no correlatio…
The Betrayal of the Poor and Community Action and the Poor
Journal Article The Betrayal of the Poor and Community Action and the Poor Get access The Betrayal of the Poor. By Rose Stephen M.. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1972. 199 pp. $8.95. Community Action and the Poor. By Pollinger Kenneth J. and Pollinger Annette C.. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972. 252 pp. $15.00. Neil Gilbert Neil Gilbert University of CaliforniaBerkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Favoritism as a Strategy in Race Relations
Social policies of favoritism are among the strategies used to compensate people for socioeconomic disadvantages suffered due to racial discrimination. The range is from preferential treatment to discrimination-in-reverse. In the former the emphasis is on equity restoration; in the latter on indemnification. Preferential treatment and discrimination-in-reverse vary in their effect on potential beneficiaries, their technical qualifications, and th…
Quality Education and Integration: An Exploratory Study
Neighborhood Coordinator: Advocate or Middleman
This Study Examines the Role of Neighborhood Coordinators in Pittsburgh'S Antipoverty Program. The Organizational Context in Which These Staff Members Operate is Described and Analyzed With Regard to the Question: "How Does This Structure Facilitate or Impede the Coordinator'S Functioning as an Advocate of Citizen Influence and Institutional Change or as a Middleman Expediting Service Delivery Between Welfare Institutions and Local Citizens?" a S…
Favoritism as a Strategy in Race Relations
Social policies of favoritism are among the strategies used to compensate people for socioeconomic disadvantages suffered due to racial discrimination. The range is from preferential treatment to discrimination-in-reverse. In the former the emphasis is on equity restoration; in the latter on indemnification. Preferential treatment and discrimination-in-reverse vary in their effect on potential beneficiaries, their technical qualifications, and th…
Incentives to Work
The Betrayal of the Poor and Community Action and the Poor
Journal Article The Betrayal of the Poor and Community Action and the Poor Get access The Betrayal of the Poor. By Rose Stephen M.. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1972. 199 pp. $8.95. Community Action and the Poor. By Pollinger Kenneth J. and Pollinger Annette C.. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972. 252 pp. $15.00. Neil Gilbert Neil Gilbert University of CaliforniaBerkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Socio-Political Correlates of Community Action: Conflict, Political Integration, and Citizen Influence
Institutional racism' and educational policy
In recent years American universities have come under increasing attack from many students and a small proportion of faculty for being a spawning ground of 'institutional racism', a charge that implies various malefactions. The language of this accusation is often so inflammatory that different meanings of the term are fused and consequently policies to deal with the problems at issue are confused. Having spent a good portion of the last two year…
Demographic Correlates of Citizen Participation: An Analysis of Race, Community Size, and Citizen Influence
Studies of relationships between the size and racial composition of communities and the impact of citizen participation on local decision making in community development programs have produced contradictory results. This paper reviews and attempts to assess these conflicting findings in light of data based on the citizen participation ex- periences in the Model Cities Program nationwide. Analysis of the Model Cities data reveals (a) no correlatio…
Picking Winners: Federal Discretion and Local Experience as Bases for Planning Grant Allocation
Federal grant allocation procedures often rely upon the granting authority's technical ability to judge the merits of different applicants as a basis for selecting those to be funded. The rationale for such selection procedures, how these procedures are organized, and their results are the general issues of concern in this study. The specific context in which these questions are addressed is the Model Cities Program. Cities were chosen to receive…
Biometrical Interpretation
Alternative Forms of Social Protection for Developing Countries
There is growing recognition that, while technological advances in the rural sector of developing countries may increase productivity, at the same time they undermine traditional systems of social protection. These changes are generating pressing needs to design social mechanisms that will secure the health and welfare of rural populations. This study examines various approaches to the problems of insecurity in the rural sector of developing coun…
The Transformation of Social Services
Over a relatively short period of fifteen years, there have been significant changes in the clientele, provisions, delivery, financing, and planning of social services in the United States. The collective impact of these changes has brought social services to the threshold of a new era; it is an era in which more consumers from all classes, more types of social service agencies, and more state and local governments have a greater stake than ever …
The burgeoning social service payload
Planning for Social Welfare: Issues, Models and Tasks
An Initial Agenda for Family Policy
The Design of Community Planning Structures
In recent years resident and consumer involvement in community planning for social welfare has gained considerable legitimacy and support from the federal government. While the principle of citizen participation has become institutionalized, the design of planning structures through which participation may be realized remains open to varying interpretations. Planners faced with the task of translating legislative requirements of citizen participa…
Social Service Planning Cycles: Ritualism or Rationalism
Planning has been given an increased role in the delivery of social services in the United States during the 1970s on both the state and federal levels. This article presents the effects of this increased planning effort on the allocation and reallocation of funds via the 1974 Title XX Amendments to the Social Security Act. The funding patterns and planning cycles in twenty-five generic service categories in all fifty states and the District of C…
The future of welfare capitalism
The Plight of Universal Social Services
In the early 1960s, the motivating theme of social services in the American welfare state was reduction of economic dependency. At that time services were highly selective, aimed mainly at poor people. Between 1960 and 1980 there was a drift toward univeralism, as the welfare state expanded to serve an increasing number of middle-class groups. This expansion of the welfare state was related to several social and demographic trends, and was accomp…
Policy issues in primary prevention
Journal Article Policy issues in primary prevention Get access Neil Gilbert, Ph.D. Neil Gilbert, Ph.D. Professor of Social Welfare School of Social Welfare, University of CaliforniaBerkeley The author wishes to thank Harry Specht for his critical reading and helpful comments on an earlier version of this article. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Symposium on Issues in Social Work Education, Graduate Sc…
The Author Responds
Journal Article The Author Responds Get access Neil Gilbert Neil Gilbert School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 27, Issue 6, November 1982, Pages 534–543, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/27.6.534 Published: 01 November 1982
In Support of Domesticity: A Neglected Family Policy Option
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Moral Objections to Welfare for Profit: A Reply
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Capitalism and the Welfare State: Dilemmas of Social Benevolence
Capitalism and the welfare state : dilemmas of social benevolence , Capitalism and the welfare state : dilemmas of social benevolence , کتابخانه دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Political science (75 works) · Economics (50 works) · Sociology (50 works) · Law (44 works) · Welfare (35 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (34 works) · Law (27 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (21 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Welfare state (20 works)