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11.020 Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy

11.020 Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy (HASS-D-CI)

Course Syllabus

Fall 1999, MW 3:00-4:30, 5-231

Class meets in 5-231

Professor Martin Rein

mrein@mit.edu

Office: 9-549

X3-2047

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:00-12:00

Much social controversy in the 1990s has been concerned with how society should respond to poverty, and the related issues of welfare, out of wedlock births, homelessness, crime, and drugs. This course investigates how particular societal responses are a function of the values, political and policy issues, as well as social science findings that are brought to these controversies. The course will examine both what we know about poverty and related behaviors from social science research and how this knowledge is incorporated into public discourse.

Requirements:

readings, one midterm exam (15%)

one final exam (20%)

three 7 page papers (35%)

attendance at lectures and participation in weekly discussions (30%)

The following text is available at the Coop in Kendall Square:

Rebecca Blank, It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997 (paperback edition). Cost: $21.50

The reader can be purchased from Copy Tech, located on the MIT campus in building 11-004. There is also a set of reserve readings at Rotch Library. In selected cases there are readings that will be handed out in class.

Students are responsible to complete all readings found in the required texts, reader and reserve readings prior to class.

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING POVERTY

Monday, September 13

(Lecture 1) The Social Construction of Poverty

Total pages: 39 Mayer, Susan and Jencks, Christopher. "War on Poverty: No Apologies, Please." Op-Ed. The New York Times. November 9, 1995 (1 pp)

Murray, Charles. "Welfare Hysteria" Op-Ed. The New York Times. November 14, 1995 (1 pp)

Aaron, Henry J., Mann, Thomas, E. & Taylor, Timothy (eds). 1994. "Introduction" in Values and Public Policy. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institute, pp. 1-4. (4 pp)

Rocheford, David. 1994. Chapter 1, in The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda. Kansas: University Press of Kansas, pp. 1-31. (28 pp)

Himmelfarb, Gertrude. 1984. The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age, Alfred A. Knopf: New York, pp. 147-152 (5 pp)

Wednesday, September 15

(Lecture 2) Concepts & Definitions of Poverty

Total pages: 50 Blank, Rebecca. 1996 "Introduction" in It Takes a Nation. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press pp. 3-12. (10 pp)

Rein, Martin. 1970. Chapter 2 "Problems in the Definition and Measurement of Poverty" in The Concept of Poverty, (ed) Peter Towsend, London: Heinemann, pp. 46-63. (18 pp)

World Development Report 1990. Pp. 25-29. (5pp)

Triest, Robert. 1998. "Has Poverty Gotten Worse?" in Journal of Economic Perspectives, v12, n1, pp. 97-114. (17 pp)

Monday, September 20

(Lecture 3) The Social Demography of Poverty

Total pages: 66 Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 1 "The Changing Face of Poverty" in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage, pp. 13-51. (39 pp).

Rainwater, Lee. 1994. "A Primer on Poverty: 1949-1992" Russell Sage Foundation, Working Paper No. 53: 1-27. (27 pp)

Wednesday, September 22

(Lecture 4) How Should the Poor be Helped?

Total pages: 62 Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 3 "America's Efforts to Provide A Safety Net" in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage, pp. 83-132. (50 pp)

Section 4.1 or entire chapter 4?

(to page 190) Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 4 "What do Anti-Poverty Programs Do?" in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage. Section 4.1, pp. 133-145. (12 pp)

Wednesday September 27

(Lecture 5) Who is Responsible for The Poor? Individual Responsibility

Total pages: 52

Katz, Michael. "Public/ Private Relations in the History of American Social Welfare" in Michael B. Katz and Christoph Sachsse (eds), The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare, Baden Baden, Germany , Nomos Publishers 1996 pp.97-119 (22 pp) (Optional: Tables: pp. 120-128)

Patterson, Orlando. 1997. Chapter 2 "The Moral & Intellectual Crisis of Liberal Afro-American Advocacy" in The Ordeal of Integration. Washington: Civitas / Counterpoint, pp. 83-97. (15 pp)

Wilson James. 1997. in Moral Judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? New York: Basic Books, pp. 36-43. (9 pp)

Schmidtz, David and Robert E. Goodin. Chapter 1.1.4 "How to Make Sure the Poor Are Left Behind" in Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. 14-20 (6 pp)

Monday, September 29

(Lecture 6) Who is Responsible for the Poor? Societal Responsibility

Total pages: 58 Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 5 "Who Should Help the Poor", in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage, pp. 191-219. (29 pp)

Schmidtz, David and Robert E. Goodin. Chapter 2.3.2 "Two Senses of Responsibility" in Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. 149-54 (5 pp)

McCants, Anne. 1998. Chapter 1 "Charitable Behavior and the Rise of Capitalism" in Civic Charity in a Golden Age. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp. 1-21, 237-239. (24 pp)

Monday, October 4

(Lecture 7) Policy Design and the Problem of Incentives

Total pages: 70 Blank, Rebecca. 1997. pps. 94-98 and 146-157 in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russel Sage. (15 pp)

Mead, Lawrence. "Telling the Poor What to Do" in The Public Interest, Summer 1998, No. 132, pp. 97-112. (16 pp)

Ellwood, David. 1988. Chapter 2 "Values and Helping Conundrums" in Poor Support, New York: Basic Books, pp. 14-26. (13 pp)

Le Grand, Julian. "Knights, Knaves or Pawns: Human Behavior and Social Policy". March 1996 Mimeo, pp. 1-26. (26 pp)

Wednesday, October 6

(Lecture 8)

Policy Design and the Problems of Justice and Fairness

Total pages: 64 Himmelfarb, Gertrude. 1995. The Demoralization of Society, pp. 125-142 (Chapter 4). NY: Knopf. (17 pp)

Jencks, Christopher. 1988. "Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational Opportunity to Be Equal" in Ethics, April 1988, pp. 518-533. (16 pp)

Schmidtz, David * Robert E. Goodin. 1998. Section 1.5 "But is it Just" in Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 80-94. (15 pp)

Cohen, Joshua. 1994. "Remarks on Inequality and Poverty". Mimeo.

PART II: POVERTY FRAMES

Frame One: Poverty as Impoverishment

OCTOBER 11 COLUMBUS DAY, MONDAY CLASS MOVED TO 10.12.99

Tuesday, October 12

(Lecture 9) Economic Growth and Poverty

Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 2 "A Changing Economy" in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage. (31 pp)

Reader Krugman, Paul. 1994. "Europe Jobless, America Penniless?" Foreign Policy. (Summer) pp. 19-34. (16 pp)

Krugman, Paul. 1994. Chapter 5 "Income Distribution" in Peddling Prosperity. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 130-150. (21 pp)

Danziger, Sheldon and Gottschalk, Peter. 1995. Chapter 5 "Why Poverty Remains High", in America Unequal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 93-110, 188-190. (21 pp)

Wednesday, October 13

(Lecture 10) The IQ Controversy The Bell Curve

Reserve Herrnstein, Richard and Murray, Charles. 1994. "Introduction", chapter 5 "Poverty" and "Afterward" in The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure American Life. New York: Free Press, pp. 1-24, 127-142, 553-575. (63 pp)

Reader Heckman, James. 1995. "A Review of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure American Life by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray" Reason. March, 1995, pp. 1, 19-23. (6 pp)

Monday, October 18

(Lecture 11) Taxes, Transfers and Exemptions

Katz, Michael. 1986. Chapters 3, 5, & 6 in In the Shadow of the Poorhouse. New York: Basic Books. (70 pp)

Reader Titmuss, Richard. 1959. Chapter 2 "Social Division of Welfare." in Essays on the Welfare State. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 34-55. (22 pp)

Reserve Rein, Martin and Rainwater, Lee. 1986, chapter 2 "The Institutions of Social Protection" in Public/Private Interplay in Social Protection: A Comparative Study. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 25-56 (32 pp)

Frame Two: Poverty as Deviance

Wednesday, October 20

Introduction to Social Deviance

Film: "Boyz in the Hood"

Katz, Michael. 1986. Chapters 7 & 8 in In the Shadow of the Poorhouse. New York: Basic Books. (90pp)

Monday, October 25

(Lecture 12) The Underclass Debate

Reader Wilson, William Julius. 1987. Chapter 1 "Cycles of Deprivation and the Ghetto Underclass Debate" in The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 3-19. (17pp)

Anderson, Elijah. 1994. "Code of the Streets." Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 273, May, pp. 81-82, 86-89, 92, 94. (8pp)

Jencks, Christopher. 1992. Chapter 5 "Is the American Underclass Growing?" in Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass New York: Harper Perennial, pp. 143-203, 250-262. (74pp)

Rainwater, Lee. 1987. "Class Culture, Poverty and Welfare", October, pp. 1-32. Revised 1989. (33pp)

Wednesday October 27 MIDTERM EXAM

Monday, November 1

(Lecture 13) Crime, Deviance, and Poverty

Reader Sampson, Robert, J. et al. (1997). "Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy", Science, vol. 227, 15 August 1997, pp. 918-924. (7pp)

Wilson, James Q. 1975. Chapter 3 "Criminologists", in Thinking About Crime. New York: Basic Books, pp. 43-63. (21pp)

Jaynes, Gerald David and Williams, Robin M.. 1989. "Crime and the Administration of Criminal Justice", in The Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society" Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, pp. 453-477, 498-507. (35pp)

Kennedy, David, M. 1997. "Pulling Levers: Chronic Offenders, High-Crime Settings, and the Theory of Prevention". Valparaiso University Law Review, Vol 31, No. 2, pp. 449-484. (36pp)

Frame III: Poverty as Dependence

Wednesday, November 3

(Lecture 14) The Changing Structures of Families: The Feminization of Poverty

Reader Pearce, D.M. 1978. "The Feminization of Poverty: Women, Work and Welfare." Urban Social Change Vol. 11, 1-2. pp. 28-36. (9pp)

McLanahan, Sara. 1994. "The Consequences of Single Motherhood." in American Prospect. Vol. 18 Summer. pp. 48-58. (11pp)

McLanahan, Sara and Garfinkel, Irv. 1985. Chapter 3 in Single Mothers and Their Children, The Urban Institute Press, pp. 45-85. (41pp)

Lewis, Jane. 1995. "The Problem of Lone Mothers in Twentieth Century Britain", (Mimeo) pp. 1-28. (28pp)

Monday, November 8

(Lecture 15) Orphanages, Mothers Pensions and the Problem of

Dependency

Reader Jencks, Christopher. 1992. Chapter 2 in Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass. Cambridge, MA. : Harvard University Press, pp. 70-91. (22pp)

Kertzer, David. 1993. Chapter 2 in Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control. Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 16-37. (23pp)

Reserve Murray, Charles. 1984. Chapter 12 & 16 in Losing Ground. New York: Basic Books, pp. 154-166, 205-218. (27pp)

Skocpol, Theda. 1995. Chapters 4 and 5 in Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in a Historical Perspective. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 136-208. (73pp)

Wednesday, November 10

(Lecture 16) Welfare Reform

Teles, Steven. 1996. Chapter 8 in Whose Welfare?: AFDC and Elite Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (17pp)

Reader Haskins, Ron. 1998. "Liberal and Conservative Influences on the Welfare Reform Legislation of 1996", (Mimeo) pp. 1-43. (43pp)

Edelman, Peter. 1997. "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done" The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 279, No. 3. pp. 43-58. (16pp)

De Parle, Jason. "It Takes A Village to Reform Welfare"The New York Times Magazine, August 24, 1997: 32, pp. 33-37, 47, 54, 59-61. (10pp)

Jencks, Christopher. 1997. "Preface" in Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet, New York: Russell Sage, pp. ix-xxvii. (19pp)

Ellwood, David. 1996. "Welfare Reform As I Knew It: When Bad Things Happen to Good Policies." The American Prospect, May- June, pp. 22-29. (8pp)

Frame IV: Poverty and Disenfranchisement

Monday, November 15

(Lecture 17) The War on Poverty and the Expansion of AFDC

Katz, Michael. 1986. "From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare" (Part III) in In the Shadow of the Poorhouse. New York: Basic Books. (41pp)

Teles, Steven. 1996. Chapters 2, 5 ,6 and 7 in Whose Welfare?: AFDC and Elite Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (94pp)

Wednesday, November 17

(Lecture 18) Lack of Power and Social Capital

Reader Alinsky, Saul. 1969. Chapter 1 in Reveille for Radicals. New York: Random House (Vintage Books), pp.3-23. (21pp)

Cortes, Ernesto. 1993. "Reweaving the Fabric: The Iron Rule and IAF Strategy for Dealing with Poverty Through Power Politics". IAF working paper #56 pp. 1-31. (31pp)

McKnight, John. 1991. "Services are Bad for People", in Organizing, Spring-Summer 1991, pp. 69-72. (4pp)

Mondros, Jaqueline and Wilson, Scott. 1994. Chapter 1 in Organizing for Power and Empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 1-10. (11pp)

Reserve Fisher, Robert. 1994. Chapter 4 "The Neighborhood Organizing Revolution of the 1960's", in Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America. Boston: Twayne Publishers / MacMillan Publishing Company, pp. 98-131. (34pp)

Monday, November 22 Disenfranchisement Frame Continues

Reader Gaventa, John. 1980. Chapter 1 "Power and Participation" in Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, pp. 4-32. (29pp)

Reserve Mondros, Jacqueline and Wilson, Scott. 1994. Chapter 7 "Implementing Strategy: The Action Phase", in Organizing for Power and Empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 161-186. (26pp)

Shirely, Dennis. 1997. Chapter 7 "The Educational Collaboratives of the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation", in Robert H. Wilson, Public Policy and Community. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 166-228. (63pp)

Wednesday, November 24 Film: TBD

PART III: POLITICS, POLICY, AND KNOWLEDGE

Monday, November 29

(Lecture 19) Race and Poverty

Reader West, Cornel. 1993. Chapter 1 "Nihilism in Black America" in Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 17-31. (15pp)

Massey, Douglas, and Denton, Nancy. 1993. Chapters 5 & 6 in American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 115-185. (71pp)

Williams, Robin and Jaynes, Gerald. 1989. Chapter 1 "Overview: Then and Now" in A Common Destiny, National Academy Press, pp. 35-53. (19pp)

Reserve Edsall, Thomas and Edsall, Mary. 1992. Chapter 12 "The Stakes", in Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics. New York: W.W. Norton pp. 256-288. (33pp)

Wilson, William Julius. 1996. Chapter 5 "The Meaning and Significance of Race: Employers and Inner-City Workers" in When Work Disappears: World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Knopf / Random House, pp. 111-146. (36pp)

Wednesday, December 1

(Lecture 20) Politics and Poverty

Teles, Steven. 1996. Chapter 1,3 and 4 in Whose Welfare?: AFDC and Elite Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (52pp)

Reader Coffin, Brent B. 1997. Chapters 1, 2 & 3 " Justice in the American Welfare Reform Debate", "The Structural Functionalism of Piven and Cloward", " The Libertarian Conservatism of Charles Murray", in A View From Below: Justice in the American Welfare Reform Debate, PhD Thesis. 1997. Harvard Divinity School pp. 1-102. (102pp)

Monday, December 6

(Lecture 21) Social Science and Public Policy (Formerly Titled: The Policy Making Process)

Blank, Rebecca. 1996. Chapter 6 in It Takes a Nation. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. (32pp)

Reader Coffin, Brent, B. 1997. Chapters 4 & 5 "The Civic Conservatism of Lawrence Mead", "The Civic Liberalism of David Ellwood", in A View From Below: Justice in the American Welfare Reform Debate. PhD Thesis, 1997. Harvard Divinity School, pp. 103-323. (223pp)

Reserve Wilson, William Julius. 1996. Chapter 7 "Racial Antagonisms and Race-Based Social Policy", in When Work Disappears: World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Knopf, pp. 183-206. (24pp)

Wednesday, December 9

(Lecture 22) Conclusion **FINAL TEST (?)

Teles, Steven. 1996. Chapter 9 in Whose Welfare?: AFDC and Elite Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (13pp)

Reader Stone, Deborah. 1989. "Causal Stories and the Formation of Policy Agendas". In Political Science Quarterly, vol 104, no 2., pp. 281-300. (20pp)

Rein, Martin & Winship, Christopher. 1998. "The Dangers of "Strong" Causal Reasoning: "Root" Causes, Social Science, and Poverty Policy". (14pp)

Sawhill, Elizabeth. 1995. "Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The Economist vs. Madmen in Authority." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(3):3-13. (11pp)

Reserve Lindblom, Charles E. 1990. Chapter 1 "Knowledge and Social Problems", in Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society. New York: Yale University Press / Russel Sage, pp. 1-14. (14pp)

Haveman, Robert 1994. Chapter 16 "The Nature, Causes, and Cures of Poverty: Accomplishments from Three Decades of Poverty Research and Policy."in Confronting Poverty, edited by Sheldon Danziger, Gary Sandefur, and Dan Weinberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Cambridge, MA.:Harvard University Press, pp. 438-448, 478. (12pp)

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11.020 Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy
11.020 Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy (HASS-D-CI) Course Syllabus Fall 1999, MW 3:00-4:30, 5-231 Class meets in 5-231 Professor Martin Rein mrein@mit.edu Office: 9-549 X3-2047 Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:00-12:00 Much social controversy in the 1990s has been concerned with how society should respond to poverty, and the related issues of welfare, out of wedlock births, homelessness, crime, and drugs. This course investigates how particular societal responses are a function of the values, political and policy issues, as well as social science findings that are brought to these controversies. The course will examine both what we know about poverty and related behaviors from social science research and how this knowledge is incorporated into public discourse. Requirements: readings, one midterm exam (15%) one final exam (20%) three 7 page papers (35%) attendance at lectures and participation in weekly discussions (30%) The following text is available at the Coop in Kendall Square: Rebecca Blank, It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997 (paperback edition). Cost: $21.50 The reader can be purchased from Copy Tech, located on the MIT campus in building 11-004. There is also a set of reserve readings at Rotch Library. In selected cases there are readings that will be handed out in class. Students are responsible to complete all readings found in the required texts, reader and reserve readings prior to class. PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING POVERTY Monday, September 13 (Lecture 1) *The Social Construction of Poverty* Total pages: 39 Mayer, Susan and Jencks, Christopher. "War on Poverty: No Apologies, Please." Op-Ed. The New York Times. November 9, 1995 (1 pp) Murray, Charles. "Welfare Hysteria" Op-Ed. The New York Times. November 14, 1995 (1 pp) Aaron, Henry J., Mann, Thomas, E. & Taylor, Timothy (eds). 1994. "Introduction" in Values and Public Policy. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institute, pp. 1-4. (4 pp) Rocheford, David. 1994. Chapter 1, in The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda. Kansas: University Press of Kansas, pp. 1-31. (28 pp) Himmelfarb, Gertrude. 1984. The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age, Alfred A. Knopf: New York, pp. 147-152 (5 pp) *Wednesday, September 15* *(Lecture 2)* *Concepts & Definitions of Poverty* Total pages: 50 Blank, Rebecca. 1996 "Introduction" in It Takes a Nation. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press pp. 3-12. (10 pp) Rein, Martin. 1970. Chapter 2 "Problems in the Definition and Measurement of Poverty" in The Concept of Poverty, (ed) Peter Towsend, London: Heinemann, pp. 46-63. (18 pp) World Development Report 1990. Pp. 25-29. (5pp) Triest, Robert. 1998. "Has Poverty Gotten Worse?" in Journal of Economic Perspectives, v12, n1, pp. 97-114. (17 pp) Monday, September 20 (Lecture 3) The Social Demography of Poverty Total pages: 66 Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 1 "The Changing Face of Poverty" in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage, pp. 13-51. (39 pp). Rainwater, Lee. 1994. "A Primer on Poverty: 1949-1992" Russell Sage Foundation, Working Paper No. 53: 1-27. (27 pp) Wednesday, September 22 (Lecture 4) How Should the Poor be Helped? Total pages: 62 Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 3 "America's Efforts to Provide A Safety Net" in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage, pp. 83-132. (50 pp) Section 4.1 or entire chapter 4? (to page 190) Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 4 "What do Anti-Poverty Programs Do?" in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage. Section 4.1, pp. 133-145. (12 pp) Wednesday September 27 (Lecture 5) *Who is Responsible for The Poor? Individual Responsibility* Total pages: 52 Katz, Michael. "Public/ Private Relations in the History of American Social Welfare" in Michael B. Katz and Christoph Sachsse (eds), The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare, Baden Baden, Germany , Nomos Publishers 1996 pp.97-119 (22 pp) (Optional: Tables: pp. 120-128) Patterson, Orlando. 1997. Chapter 2 "The Moral & Intellectual Crisis of Liberal Afro-American Advocacy" in The Ordeal of Integration. Washington: Civitas / Counterpoint, pp. 83-97. (15 pp) Wilson James. 1997. in Moral Judgment: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? New York: Basic Books, pp. 36-43. (9 pp) Schmidtz, David and Robert E. Goodin. Chapter 1.1.4 "How to Make Sure the Poor Are Left Behind" in Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. 14-20 (6 pp) Monday, September 29 (Lecture 6) Who is Responsible for the Poor? Societal Responsibility Total pages: 58 Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 5 "Who Should Help the Poor", in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage, pp. 191-219. (29 pp) Schmidtz, David and Robert E. Goodin. Chapter 2.3.2 "Two Senses of Responsibility" in Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. 149-54 (5 pp) McCants, Anne. 1998. Chapter 1 "Charitable Behavior and the Rise of Capitalism" in Civic Charity in a Golden Age. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp. 1-21, 237-239. (24 pp) Monday, October 4 (Lecture 7) Policy Design and the Problem of Incentives Total pages: 70 Blank, Rebecca. 1997. pps. 94-98 and 146-157 in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russel Sage. (15 pp) Mead, Lawrence. "Telling the Poor What to Do" in The Public Interest, Summer 1998, No. 132, pp. 97-112. (16 pp) Ellwood, David. 1988. Chapter 2 "Values and Helping Conundrums" in Poor Support, New York: Basic Books, pp. 14-26. (13 pp) Le Grand, Julian. "Knights, Knaves or Pawns: Human Behavior and Social Policy". March 1996 Mimeo, pp. 1-26. (26 pp) Wednesday, October 6 (Lecture 8) *Policy Design and the Problems of Justice and Fairness* Total pages: 64 Himmelfarb, Gertrude. 1995. The Demoralization of Society, pp. 125-142 (Chapter 4). NY: Knopf. (17 pp) Jencks, Christopher. 1988. "Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational Opportunity to Be Equal" in Ethics, April 1988, pp. 518-533. (16 pp) Schmidtz, David * Robert E. Goodin. 1998. Section 1.5 "But is it Just" in Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 80-94. (15 pp) Cohen, Joshua. 1994. "Remarks on Inequality and Poverty". Mimeo. PART II: POVERTY FRAMES Frame One: Poverty as Impoverishment OCTOBER 11 COLUMBUS DAY, MONDAY CLASS MOVED TO 10.12.99 *Tuesday, October 12* *(Lecture 9)* Economic Growth and Poverty Blank, Rebecca. 1997. Chapter 2 "A Changing Economy" in It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton NJ: Princeton/Russell Sage. (31 pp) Reader Krugman, Paul. 1994. "Europe Jobless, America Penniless?" Foreign Policy. (Summer) pp. 19-34. (16 pp) Krugman, Paul. 1994. Chapter 5 "Income Distribution" in Peddling Prosperity. New York: W.W. Norton, pp. 130-150. (21 pp) Danziger, Sheldon and Gottschalk, Peter. 1995. Chapter 5 "Why Poverty Remains High", in America Unequal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 93-110, 188-190. (21 pp) Wednesday, October 13 (Lecture 10) The IQ Controversy The Bell Curve Reserve Herrnstein, Richard and Murray, Charles. 1994. "Introduction", chapter 5 "Poverty" and "Afterward" in The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure American Life. New York: Free Press, pp. 1-24, 127-142, 553-575. (63 pp) Reader Heckman, James. 1995. "A Review of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure American Life by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray" Reason. March, 1995, pp. 1, 19-23. (6 pp) Monday, October 18 (Lecture 11) Taxes, Transfers and Exemptions Katz, Michael. 1986. Chapters 3, 5, & 6 in In the Shadow of the Poorhouse. New York: Basic Books. (70 pp) Reader Titmuss, Richard. 1959. Chapter 2 "Social Division of Welfare." in Essays on the Welfare State. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 34-55. (22 pp) Reserve Rein, Martin and Rainwater, Lee. 1986, chapter 2 "The Institutions of Social Protection" in Public/Private Interplay in Social Protection: A Comparative Study. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 25-56 (32 pp) Frame Two: Poverty as Deviance Wednesday, October 20 Introduction to Social Deviance *Film: "Boyz in the Hood"* Katz, Michael. 1986. Chapters 7 & 8 in In the Shadow of the Poorhouse. New York: Basic Books. (90pp) Monday, October 25 (Lecture 12) The Underclass Debate Reader Wilson, William Julius. 1987. Chapter 1 "Cycles of Deprivation and the Ghetto Underclass Debate" in The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 3-19. (17pp) Anderson, Elijah. 1994. "Code of the Streets." Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 273, May, pp. 81-82, 86-89, 92, 94. (8pp) Jencks, Christopher. 1992. Chapter 5 "Is the American Underclass Growing?" in Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass New York: Harper Perennial, pp. 143-203, 250-262. (74pp) Rainwater, Lee. 1987. "Class Culture, Poverty and Welfare", October, pp. 1-32. Revised 1989. (33pp) Wednesday October 27 MIDTERM EXAM Monday, November 1 (Lecture 13) Crime, Deviance, and Poverty Reader Sampson, Robert, J. et al. (1997). "Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy", Science, vol. 227, 15 August 1997, pp. 918-924. (7pp) Wilson, James Q. 1975. Chapter 3 "Criminologists", in Thinking About Crime. New York: Basic Books, pp. 43-63. (21pp) Jaynes, Gerald David and Williams, Robin M.. 1989. "Crime and the Administration of Criminal Justice", in The Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society" Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, pp. 453-477, 498-507. (35pp) Kennedy, David, M. 1997. "Pulling Levers: Chronic Offenders, High-Crime Settings, and the Theory of Prevention". Valparaiso University Law Review, Vol 31, No. 2, pp. 449-484. (36pp) Frame III: Poverty as Dependence Wednesday, November 3 (Lecture 14) The Changing Structures of Families: The Feminization of Poverty Reader Pearce, D.M. 1978. "The Feminization of Poverty: Women, Work and Welfare." Urban Social Change Vol. 11, 1-2. pp. 28-36. (9pp) McLanahan, Sara. 1994. "The Consequences of Single Motherhood." in American Prospect. Vol. 18 Summer. pp. 48-58. (11pp) McLanahan, Sara and Garfinkel, Irv. 1985. Chapter 3 in Single Mothers and Their Children, The Urban Institute Press, pp. 45-85. (41pp) Lewis, Jane. 1995. "The Problem of Lone Mothers in Twentieth Century Britain", (Mimeo) pp. 1-28. (28pp) Monday, November 8 (Lecture 15) Orphanages, Mothers Pensions and the Problem of Dependency Reader Jencks, Christopher. 1992. Chapter 2 in Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass. Cambridge, MA. : Harvard University Press, pp. 70-91. (22pp) Kertzer, David. 1993. Chapter 2 in Sacrificed for Honor: Italian Infant Abandonment and the Politics of Reproductive Control. Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 16-37. (23pp) Reserve Murray, Charles. 1984. Chapter 12 & 16 in Losing Ground. New York: Basic Books, pp. 154-166, 205-218. (27pp) Skocpol, Theda. 1995. Chapters 4 and 5 in Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in a Historical Perspective. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 136-208. (73pp) Wednesday, November 10 (Lecture 16) Welfare Reform Teles, Steven. 1996. Chapter 8 in Whose Welfare?: AFDC and Elite Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (17pp) Reader Haskins, Ron. 1998. "Liberal and Conservative Influences on the Welfare Reform Legislation of 1996", (Mimeo) pp. 1-43. (43pp) Edelman, Peter. 1997. "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done" The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 279, No. 3. pp. 43-58. (16pp) De Parle, Jason. "It Takes A Village to Reform Welfare"The New York Times Magazine, August 24, 1997: 32, pp. 33-37, 47, 54, 59-61. (10pp) Jencks, Christopher. 1997. "Preface" in Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet, New York: Russell Sage, pp. ix-xxvii. (19pp) Ellwood, David. 1996. "Welfare Reform As I Knew It: When Bad Things Happen to Good Policies." The American Prospect, May- June, pp. 22-29. (8pp) Frame IV: Poverty and Disenfranchisement Monday, November 15 (Lecture 17) The War on Poverty and the Expansion of AFDC Katz, Michael. 1986. "From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare" (Part III) in In the Shadow of the Poorhouse. New York: Basic Books. (41pp) Teles, Steven. 1996. Chapters 2, 5 ,6 and 7 in Whose Welfare?: AFDC and Elite Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (94pp) Wednesday, November 17 (Lecture 18) Lack of Power and Social Capital Reader Alinsky, Saul. 1969. Chapter 1 in Reveille for Radicals. New York: Random House (Vintage Books), pp.3-23. (21pp) Cortes, Ernesto. 1993. "Reweaving the Fabric: The Iron Rule and IAF Strategy for Dealing with Poverty Through Power Politics". IAF working paper #56 pp. 1-31. (31pp) McKnight, John. 1991. "Services are Bad for People", in Organizing, Spring-Summer 1991, pp. 69-72. (4pp) Mondros, Jaqueline and Wilson, Scott. 1994. Chapter 1 in Organizing for Power and Empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 1-10. (11pp) Reserve Fisher, Robert. 1994. Chapter 4 "The Neighborhood Organizing Revolution of the 1960's", in Let the People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America. Boston: Twayne Publishers / MacMillan Publishing Company, pp. 98-131. (34pp) Monday, November 22 Disenfranchisement Frame Continues Reader Gaventa, John. 1980. Chapter 1 "Power and Participation" in Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, pp. 4-32. (29pp) Reserve Mondros, Jacqueline and Wilson, Scott. 1994. Chapter 7 "Implementing Strategy: The Action Phase", in Organizing for Power and Empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 161-186. (26pp) Shirely, Dennis. 1997. Chapter 7 "The Educational Collaboratives of the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation", in Robert H. Wilson, Public Policy and Community. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 166-228. (63pp) Wednesday, November 24 Film: TBD PART III: POLITICS, POLICY, AND KNOWLEDGE Monday, November 29 (Lecture 19) Race and Poverty Reader West, Cornel. 1993. Chapter 1 "Nihilism in Black America" in Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 17-31. (15pp) Massey, Douglas, and Denton, Nancy. 1993. Chapters 5 & 6 in American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 115-185. (71pp) Williams, Robin and Jaynes, Gerald. 1989. Chapter 1 "Overview: Then and Now" in A Common Destiny, National Academy Press, pp. 35-53. (19pp) Reserve Edsall, Thomas and Edsall, Mary. 1992. Chapter 12 "The Stakes", in Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics. New York: W.W. Norton pp. 256-288. (33pp) Wilson, William Julius. 1996. Chapter 5 "The Meaning and Significance of Race: Employers and Inner-City Workers" in When Work Disappears: World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Knopf / Random House, pp. 111-146. (36pp) Wednesday, December 1 (Lecture 20) Politics and Poverty Teles, Steven. 1996. Chapter 1,3 and 4 in Whose Welfare?: AFDC and Elite Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (52pp) Reader Coffin, Brent B. 1997. Chapters 1, 2 & 3 " Justice in the American Welfare Reform Debate", "The Structural Functionalism of Piven and Cloward", " The Libertarian Conservatism of Charles Murray", in A View From Below: Justice in the American Welfare Reform Debate, PhD Thesis. 1997. Harvard Divinity School pp. 1-102. (102pp) Monday, December 6 (Lecture 21) Social Science and Public Policy (Formerly Titled: The Policy Making Process) Blank, Rebecca. 1996. Chapter 6 in It Takes a Nation. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. (32pp) Reader Coffin, Brent, B. 1997. Chapters 4 & 5 "The Civic Conservatism of Lawrence Mead", "The Civic Liberalism of David Ellwood", in A View From Below: Justice in the American Welfare Reform Debate. PhD Thesis, 1997. Harvard Divinity School, pp. 103-323. (223pp) Reserve Wilson, William Julius. 1996. Chapter 7 "Racial Antagonisms and Race-Based Social Policy", in When Work Disappears: World of the New Urban Poor. New York: Knopf, pp. 183-206. (24pp) Wednesday, December 9 (Lecture 22) Conclusion FINAL TEST (?) Teles, Steven. 1996. Chapter 9 in Whose Welfare?: AFDC and Elite Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press. (13pp) Reader Stone, Deborah. 1989. "Causal Stories and the Formation of Policy Agendas". In Political Science Quarterly, vol 104, no 2., pp. 281-300. (20pp) Rein, Martin & Winship, Christopher. 1998. "The Dangers of "Strong" Causal Reasoning: "Root" Causes, Social Science, and Poverty Policy". (14pp) Sawhill, Elizabeth. 1995. "Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: The Economist vs. Madmen in Authority." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(3):3-13. (11pp) Reserve Lindblom, Charles E. 1990. Chapter 1 "Knowledge and Social Problems", in Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society. New York: Yale University Press / Russel Sage, pp. 1-14. (14pp) Haveman, Robert 1994. Chapter 16 "The Nature, Causes, and Cures of Poverty: Accomplishments from Three Decades of Poverty Research and Policy."in Confronting Poverty, edited by Sheldon Danziger, Gary Sandefur, and Dan Weinberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Cambridge, MA.:Harvard University Press, pp. 438-448, 478. (12pp)