Stephen V Monsma

Biographic Data

ID389459
NAMEStephen V Monsma
GIVEN NAMESStephen V
FAMILY NAMEMonsma
SIGNATUREMONSMA S V
AFFILIATIONSCalvin University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR15
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX2

  • Faith-Based Interventions for At-Risk Latino Youths

    Open AccessStephen V Monsma, Corwin E SmidtARTICLEPolitics and Religion2013Cited by: 2References: 5

    This is a study of the comparative outcome success experienced by 2748 participants in government-funded faith-based and community-based intervention programs for at-risk and adjudicated Latino youths run by 28 providers in five western cities. The Latino Coalition, an intermediary faith-based organization, subcontracted with 28 sub-grantees that provided the services from 2005–2008. The study found similar outcomes were experienced by youths in …

  • Thy Kingdom Come

    Open AccessStephen V MonsmaARTICLEReligious Studies Review2007

  • Faith, Hope, and Jobs

    Stephen V MonsmaBOOKFaith, Hope, and Jobs2006

    A front-burner issue on the public policy agenda today is the increased use of partnerships between government and nongovernmental entities, including faith-based social service organizations. In the wake of President Bush's faith-based initiative, many are still wondering about the effectiveness of these faith-based organizations in providing services to those in need, and whether they provide better outcomes than more traditional government, se…

  • The Effectiveness of Faith-Based Welfare-to-Work Programs

    Stephen V MonsmaARTICLEJournal of Religion & Spirituality…2006

    This essay first highlights three major challenges of measuring program effectiveness. It concludes effectiveness can best be conceptualized in terms of program outcomes and that such outcomes-while difficult to measure-can be measured with sufficient accuracy to justify the effort. These considerations are then illustrated by data gathered from 17 Los Angeles welfare-to-work programs and their clients in order to assess the comparative effective…

  • Putting Faith in Partnerships

    Stephen V Monsma, Stephen MonsmaBOOKPutting Faith in Partnerships2004

    Putting Faith in Partnerships addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush administration: the shift of responsibility for social services from the federal government to states and communities. In this groundbreaking study of a politically controversial topic---the debut offering in Alan Wolfe's Contemporary Political and Social Issues series---author Stephen Monsma avoids ove…

  • Nonprofit and faith-based welfare-to-work programs

    Open AccessStephen V MonsmaARTICLESociety2003Cited by: 2

  • Equal Treatment of Religion in a Pluralistic Society

    Amelia J Uelmen, Stephen V Monsma et al.ARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion2001

    Few areas of public policy in the United States are as politically contentious and legally confusing as church-state relations. And today the traditional view of a strict separation of church and state is being further confused by increasing levels of religious pluralism. This timely book provides the first analysis of a new paradigm for discussing church-state relations -- equal treatment, also sometimes referred to as neutrality -- that has gro…

  • The challenge of pluralism

    Stephen V MonsmaBOOKThe challenge of pluralism1997

    Provides a comparative analysis of church-state issues in the United States, the Netherlands, Australia, England, and Germany, and argues that the U.S. is unique in the way it resolves religious freedom and religious establishment questions

  • Section News

    Open AccessMargaret P Karns, John L Hickman et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics1995

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  • Church and State

    Open AccessJ Christopher Soper, Stephen V MonsmaARTICLEReview of Policy Research1995Cited by: 1

    This essay examines the similarities and differences in how Great Britain and the United States fund religiously affiliated schools and other nonprofit organizations. While each country has adopted a different model of church-state relations, their actual policies tend to converge. This article contends that both nations' funding policies fall short of attaining complete government neutrality in supporting people of all faiths and those of none, …

  • Positive Neutrality

    Laura R Olson, Stephen V MonsmaARTICLEReview of Religious Research1994

  • Religion and Politics in the United States

    Stephen V MonsmaREVIEWJournal of Law and Religion1990

  • Potential Leaders and Democratic Values

    Stephen V MonsmaARTICLEPublic Opinion Quarterly1971

    Journal Article POTENTIAL LEADERS AND DEMOCRATIC VALUES Get access STEPHEN V. MONSMA STEPHEN V. MONSMA Stephen V. Mensma is Associate Professor of Political Science at Calvin College. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 3, FALL 1971, Pages 350–357, https://doi.org/10.1086/267920 Published: 01 January 1971

  • Integration and Goal Attainment as Functions of Informal Legislative Groups

    Open AccessStephen V MonsmaARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1969

    R ECENTLY systems theory has been helpful in clarifying issues and directing research in the study of legislatures.' It has made an especially important contribution in directing attention to certain functions that are essential for the maintenance of a viable, stable legislative system.2 Among these functions are integration (i.e., the coordination of the system's units so that they work together in performing the system's function) 3 and goal a…

  • Integration and Goal Attainment as Functions of Informal Legislative Groups

    Stephen V MonsmaARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1969