David Stoesz
David Stoesz is an American academic, policy analyst, author, and social entrepreneur. Stoesz worked as a welfare caseworker and welfare department director and has published about social policy, child welfare, international development, and national politics. He earned his PhD at the University of Maryland-Baltimore in 1980, subsequently teaching at San Diego State University and Virginia Commonwealth University where he served as Samuel Wurtzel Professor of Social Work. He is a professor emeritus in the Virginia Commonwealth School of Social Work, and a founder of Up$tart, a company whose products assist US college students in applying for federal benefits.
Stoesz's book, Quixote’s Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy received the Prohumanitate Literary Award.
In 2010 Stoesz was inducted into the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Books
Meritocracy, Populism, and the Future of Democracy Welfare State 3.0: Social Policy After the Pandemic Building Better Social Programs: How Evidence is Transforming Public Policy The Investment State The Dynamic Welfare State Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy A poverty of imagination: Bootstrap capitalism, sequel to welfare reform The Politics of Child Abuse in America- ''Reconstructing the American Welfare State''
As an editor or co-author
American Social Welfare Policy, 9th ed. co-authored with Howard Karger- Stoesz, David, Howard Jacob Karger, and Terry E. Carrillo. "A dream deferred: How social work education lost its way and what can be done.".
- Karger, Howard Jacob, and David Stoesz. American social welfare policy. Allyn and Bacon, 2009.
Articles
- Stoesz, David. "Evidence-based policy: Reorganizing social services through accountable care organizations and social impact bonds." Research on Social Work Practice 24, no. 2 : 181–185.
- Karger, Howard Jacob, and David Stoesz. "The growth of social work education programs, 1985-1999: Its impact on economic and educational factors related to the profession of social work." Journal of Social Work Education 39, no. 2 : 279–295.
- Stoesz, David, and Howard Jacob Karger. "Deconstructing welfare: The Reagan legacy and the welfare state." Social Work 38, no. 5 : 619–628.