American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach, Enhanced Pearson eText -- Access Card

About David StoeszHoward Jacob KargerHoward Karger

Howard Karger is professor Hawai'i Pacific University School of Social Work. David Stoesz is professor Flinders University/Carnegie Mellon University--Australia. Howard and David have been friends and colleagues for more than three decades. In addition to eight editions of American Social Welfare Policy they have coauthored three other books: The Politics of Child Abuse in America (with Lela Costin) (Oxford University Press 1996); Reconstructing the American Welfare State (Rowman and Littlefield 1992); and with Terry Carrillo A Dream Deferred (Aldine 2010). Howard's book Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy (Berret-Koehler 2005) examines the financial practices and products that exploit millions of American families. The book won the 2006 Independent Publishers Award in Finance/Investment/Economics. David's book Quixote's Ghost: The Right the Liberati and the Future of Social Policy (Oxford University Press 2005) explains how conservatives have assumed control of domestic policy and proposes a new framework for social policy. Quixote's Ghost won the 2006 Pro-Humanitate Literary Award.