Michael Wiseman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Wiseman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiseman |
| SIGNATURE | WISEMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Tanf Resources Problem
The year 2016 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Whereas AFDC was based on an open‐ended matching grant, TANF is funded with a block grant from the federal government and “maintenance of effort” (MOE) obligations for states, which were generall…
Restoring the Entrails of Welfare Reform
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 famously “ended welfare as we [knew] it” by replacing the state-operated Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with a revised funding scheme called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). In the summer of 2012, controversy erupted over a memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Childr…
Supplemental Security Income for the Second Decade
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is an odd combination of income support for families with disabled children, disabled working‐age adults, and elderly persons with inadequate retirement incomes. Less than three percent of Americans receive SSI payments. The program faces challenges on all three fronts: Payments for children with disabilities bear little relationship to family need or costs associated with caring for disabled children. State eff…
Adolescents’ attitudes towards nature and environment
How Management Matters
How Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform. By Norma M. Riccucci. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 224p. $26.95. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) famously ended welfare “as we knew it”—Aid to Families with Dependent Children—and replaced the 60-year-old AFDC with a new program pointedly called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF. TANF substantially…
The welfare we want?
The welfare we want?
"The welfare we want? is an important addition to comparative literature in the field. It addesses a wide audience of policy makers, political analysts, social welfare experts, and concerned citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. Accessibility is enhanced by use of common categories for explaining how various programmes work, and for whom. Discussion of policy is at once historically detailed and up-to-date."--BOOK JACKET.
Introduction
In 1996, the USA became the first major democracy to eliminate individual entitlement to the social safety net. The reforms introduced in the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act are briefly outlined in this editorial article, which, drawing on the papers assembled in this themed section, considers the consequences of the legislation, both positive and negative, and seeks to explain why the new policy regime seems likely to pr…
Leaving It Be
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act required reauthorisation by September 30, 2002. This article describes and explains the political machinations that meant that as of November 2002, this had not occurred. Copious research fed the consensus that the 1996 reforms had been a success and, in the context of a muted debate that lacked vision, political expediency ruled the day. While minor deficiencies of the system may be ta…
Making welfare work
This paper describes and briefly evaluates the major “New Deal“ activation policies introduced by the UK New Labour government since 1997. It outlines the ambitious project to modernize the UK economy and welfare state and, within this overall strategy, to end child poverty and to tackle social exclusion by encouraging movement from welfare benefits into work, and by making work pay. Three sets of New Deal programmes are discussed: those targeted…
A Note on Poverty and the Life Course
A Note on Poverty and the Life Course
State strategies for welfare reform
Wisconsin is commonly cited as exemplar of the capability of states for reforming welfare. Wisconsin's welfare and caseload declined 22.5 percent between 1986 and 1994. I argue that the decline resulted from restriction of eligibility and benefits, a strong state economy, and large expenditures on welfare-to-work programs encouraged by an exceptional fiscal bargain with the federal government. Continued reduction of welfare utilization by means o…
America's Misunderstood Welfare State
Multisite Employment and Training Program Evaluations
This paper explores the gains from multiplying the number of sites used in experimental evaluation of the effects of employment and training programs. Using a multilevel (hierarchical) statistical framework, the authors analyze the role of site multiplication in three recent program evaluations. Although several experiments have involved substantial numbers of sites, the potential benefits from such strategies are largely unrealized. The authors …
Research and policy
Research and Policy
In the theater of politics, research often plays the roles of Scuds and Patriots. Like Scud missiles in the Gulf War, research findings launched from a variety of sites fall from the sky in the heat of debate and offer, at least in the eyes of the media, serious threat to the ambitions of advocates. Such ballistic conclusions are generally terrorist weapons: they create sound, fury, and overtime, but in the end they have little consequence as lon…
Using Birth Weights to Chart the Spatial Distribution of Urban Poverty
Investigation of the dynamic geography of urban poverty is complicated by the shortage of data on household situations at the neighbothood level. This paper suggests that institutional data on poverty-related factors such as welfare receipt, unemployment, school-leaving, and crime be used for such study. The approach is illustrated by studying the changing geographic incidence of low birth weights and homicides in Oakland, California
The False Promise of Administrative Reform
Obligation and welfare policy
Welfare
The Age of Cities and the Movement of Manufacturing Employment, 1947–1972
The age of cities and the movement of manufacturing employment, 1947–1972
Authors' Reply
Evaluating Social Services
In a recent study—Social Services: Do They Help Welfare Recipients Achieve Self-Support or Reduced Dependency?—the General Accounting Office presents research results which indicate that social services provided to AFDC recipients have not affected the likelihood that recipients will leave welfare or increase work while on welfare. In this paper we summarize the study and then criticize the methodology of the GAO research and the conclusions draw…
Making welfare work
This paper describes and briefly evaluates the major “New Deal“ activation policies introduced by the UK New Labour government since 1997. It outlines the ambitious project to modernize the UK economy and welfare state and, within this overall strategy, to end child poverty and to tackle social exclusion by encouraging movement from welfare benefits into work, and by making work pay. Three sets of New Deal programmes are discussed: those targeted…
Research and policy
Research and Policy
In the theater of politics, research often plays the roles of Scuds and Patriots. Like Scud missiles in the Gulf War, research findings launched from a variety of sites fall from the sky in the heat of debate and offer, at least in the eyes of the media, serious threat to the ambitions of advocates. Such ballistic conclusions are generally terrorist weapons: they create sound, fury, and overtime, but in the end they have little consequence as lon…
The Age of Cities and the Movement of Manufacturing Employment, 1947–1972
Restoring the Entrails of Welfare Reform
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 famously “ended welfare as we [knew] it” by replacing the state-operated Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with a revised funding scheme called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). In the summer of 2012, controversy erupted over a memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Childr…
Multisite Employment and Training Program Evaluations
This paper explores the gains from multiplying the number of sites used in experimental evaluation of the effects of employment and training programs. Using a multilevel (hierarchical) statistical framework, the authors analyze the role of site multiplication in three recent program evaluations. Although several experiments have involved substantial numbers of sites, the potential benefits from such strategies are largely unrealized. The authors …
Using Birth Weights to Chart the Spatial Distribution of Urban Poverty
Investigation of the dynamic geography of urban poverty is complicated by the shortage of data on household situations at the neighbothood level. This paper suggests that institutional data on poverty-related factors such as welfare receipt, unemployment, school-leaving, and crime be used for such study. The approach is illustrated by studying the changing geographic incidence of low birth weights and homicides in Oakland, California
The age of cities and the movement of manufacturing employment, 1947–1972
Evaluating Social Services
In a recent study—Social Services: Do They Help Welfare Recipients Achieve Self-Support or Reduced Dependency?—the General Accounting Office presents research results which indicate that social services provided to AFDC recipients have not affected the likelihood that recipients will leave welfare or increase work while on welfare. In this paper we summarize the study and then criticize the methodology of the GAO research and the conclusions draw…
Authors' Reply
The Age of Cities and the Movement of Manufacturing Employment, 1947–1972
The age of cities and the movement of manufacturing employment, 1947–1972
Welfare
Obligation and welfare policy
The False Promise of Administrative Reform
Using Birth Weights to Chart the Spatial Distribution of Urban Poverty
Investigation of the dynamic geography of urban poverty is complicated by the shortage of data on household situations at the neighbothood level. This paper suggests that institutional data on poverty-related factors such as welfare receipt, unemployment, school-leaving, and crime be used for such study. The approach is illustrated by studying the changing geographic incidence of low birth weights and homicides in Oakland, California
Research and policy
Research and Policy
In the theater of politics, research often plays the roles of Scuds and Patriots. Like Scud missiles in the Gulf War, research findings launched from a variety of sites fall from the sky in the heat of debate and offer, at least in the eyes of the media, serious threat to the ambitions of advocates. Such ballistic conclusions are generally terrorist weapons: they create sound, fury, and overtime, but in the end they have little consequence as lon…
America's Misunderstood Welfare State
Multisite Employment and Training Program Evaluations
This paper explores the gains from multiplying the number of sites used in experimental evaluation of the effects of employment and training programs. Using a multilevel (hierarchical) statistical framework, the authors analyze the role of site multiplication in three recent program evaluations. Although several experiments have involved substantial numbers of sites, the potential benefits from such strategies are largely unrealized. The authors …
State strategies for welfare reform
Wisconsin is commonly cited as exemplar of the capability of states for reforming welfare. Wisconsin's welfare and caseload declined 22.5 percent between 1986 and 1994. I argue that the decline resulted from restriction of eligibility and benefits, a strong state economy, and large expenditures on welfare-to-work programs encouraged by an exceptional fiscal bargain with the federal government. Continued reduction of welfare utilization by means o…
A Note on Poverty and the Life Course
A Note on Poverty and the Life Course
The welfare we want?
The welfare we want?
"The welfare we want? is an important addition to comparative literature in the field. It addesses a wide audience of policy makers, political analysts, social welfare experts, and concerned citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. Accessibility is enhanced by use of common categories for explaining how various programmes work, and for whom. Discussion of policy is at once historically detailed and up-to-date."--BOOK JACKET.
Introduction
In 1996, the USA became the first major democracy to eliminate individual entitlement to the social safety net. The reforms introduced in the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act are briefly outlined in this editorial article, which, drawing on the papers assembled in this themed section, considers the consequences of the legislation, both positive and negative, and seeks to explain why the new policy regime seems likely to pr…
Leaving It Be
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act required reauthorisation by September 30, 2002. This article describes and explains the political machinations that meant that as of November 2002, this had not occurred. Copious research fed the consensus that the 1996 reforms had been a success and, in the context of a muted debate that lacked vision, political expediency ruled the day. While minor deficiencies of the system may be ta…
Making welfare work
This paper describes and briefly evaluates the major “New Deal“ activation policies introduced by the UK New Labour government since 1997. It outlines the ambitious project to modernize the UK economy and welfare state and, within this overall strategy, to end child poverty and to tackle social exclusion by encouraging movement from welfare benefits into work, and by making work pay. Three sets of New Deal programmes are discussed: those targeted…
Adolescents’ attitudes towards nature and environment
How Management Matters
How Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform. By Norma M. Riccucci. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005. 224p. $26.95. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) famously ended welfare “as we knew it”—Aid to Families with Dependent Children—and replaced the 60-year-old AFDC with a new program pointedly called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF. TANF substantially…
Supplemental Security Income for the Second Decade
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is an odd combination of income support for families with disabled children, disabled working‐age adults, and elderly persons with inadequate retirement incomes. Less than three percent of Americans receive SSI payments. The program faces challenges on all three fronts: Payments for children with disabilities bear little relationship to family need or costs associated with caring for disabled children. State eff…
The Tanf Resources Problem
The year 2016 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Whereas AFDC was based on an open‐ended matching grant, TANF is funded with a block grant from the federal government and “maintenance of effort” (MOE) obligations for states, which were generall…
Restoring the Entrails of Welfare Reform
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 famously “ended welfare as we [knew] it” by replacing the state-operated Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with a revised funding scheme called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). In the summer of 2012, controversy erupted over a memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Childr…
Political science (18 works) · Welfare (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Welfare reform (8 works)