Edward Berkowitz

Biographic Data

ID365723
NAMEEdward Berkowitz
GIVEN NAMESEdward
FAMILY NAMEBerkowitz
SIGNATUREBERKOWITZ E
AFFILIATIONSGeorge Washington University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS37
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics

    Open AccessEdward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • S cott K aufman . Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party

    Open AccessEdward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    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…

  • Getting to the Affordable Care Act

    Open AccessEdward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzARTICLEJournal of Policy History2017Cited by: 1References: 4

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  • Ernest R. May

    Open AccessEdward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzARTICLEJournal of Policy History2010References: 7

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  • The Disability Rights Movement

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    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

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2002

    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

  • Man of the People

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996Cited by: 3

    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…

  • A Rage of Justice

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton. By John Jacobs. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xxviii, 578 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-520-20076-4.) 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 2, September 1996, Pages 704–705, https://doi.org…

  • Put to Work

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 4

    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…

  • The Undeserving Poor

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzREVIEWThe American Historical Review1994

  • The Politics of Pensions

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

  • Politics and Jobs

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzREVIEWJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States. By Margaret Weir. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xviii + 238 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-07853-X.) 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 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1685–1686, https://doi.org/10.2307…

  • Welfare, Women, and Race

    Open AccessGwendolyn Mink, Edward D Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1993Cited by: 1

    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…

  • Bringing the Welfare State Back In

    Douglas E Ashford, Edward D Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEComparative Politics1991Cited by: 1

  • The Politics of Social Security Expansion

    Open AccessEdward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy History1989Cited by: 1References: 5

    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 Policy toward Disabled Workers

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzARTICLESocial Service Review1986

  • The Willowbrook Wars

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1985

    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…

  • The Survival of Workers' Compensation

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLESocial Service Review1984Cited by: 7

    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

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzARTICLEJournal of Social History1984

  • Creating the Welfare State

    L J Griffin, Edward D Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1982

  • Creating the Welfare State

    Stuart D Brandes, Edward D Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1981Cited by: 10

    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 …

  • Welfare Reform in the 1950s

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLESocial Service Review1980Cited by: 1References: 2

    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

    Open AccessEdward D Berkowitz, Edward BerkowitzARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…1980

    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…

  • Businessman and Bureaucrat

    Open AccessEdward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History1978Cited by: 8References: 11

    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…

  • Coal-Mining Safety in the Progressive Period

    Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1977