Background
Haveman, Robert Henry was born on July 22, 1936 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Henry and Jeanne (Walkotten) Haveman.
( Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1...)
Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1996, then President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation repealing the principal federal program providing monetary assistance to poor families, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). With the president's signature this originally non-controversial program became the only title of the 1935 Social Security Act to be repealed. The legislation culminated a retrenchment era in welfare policy beginning in the early 1980s. To understand completely the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th Century, the various images of poor people that were present must be considered. Visions of Poverty explores these images and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways in which images of the poor appeared in these debates, relaying shifts in images that took place over time, and revealing how images functioned in policy debates to advantage some positions and disadvantage others. Looking to the future, Visions of Poverty demonstrates that any future policy agenda must first come to terms with the vivid, disabling images of the poor that continue to circulate. In debating future reforms, participants-whose ranks should include potential recipients-ought to imagine poor people anew. This ground breaking study in policymaking and cultural imagination will be of particular interest to scholars in rhetorical studies, political science, history, and public policy.
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( The War on Poverty, instituted in 1965 during the admin...)
The War on Poverty, instituted in 1965 during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, was one of the chief elements of that president’s Great Society initiative. This book describes and assesses the major social science research effort that grew up with, and in part because of, these programs. Robert H. Haveman’s objective is to illuminate the process by which social and political developments have an impact on the direction of progress in the social sciences. Haveman identifies the policy measures most closely tied to the War on Poverty and the Great Society and describes the nature of these policies and their growth from 1965 to 1980. He examines the extent and growth of resources devoted to the poverty-related research that accompanied these programs, and assesses the impact of the growth in this research commitment over the 1965–1980 period. Haveman’s was the first full overview of recent poverty-related research and an overview of methodological developments in the social sciences in the post-1965 period which were stimulated by the antipoverty effort.
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(Social Welfare Spending: Accounting For Changes From 1950...)
Social Welfare Spending: Accounting For Changes From 1950 To 1978, by Lampman, Robert J.
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(Drawing on examples from Britain and the United States, t...)
Drawing on examples from Britain and the United States, this book conceptualizes poverty as a dynamic process. This results in a reappraisal of the nature and causes of poverty and generates a fresh policy agenda that shifts the object away from poverty relief towards prevention and intervention. The text looks at definitions of poverty, causes of poverty, income maintenance, compensation and redistribution, types of childhood poverty, patterns of single homelessness, components of change and policy developments.
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Haveman, Robert Henry was born on July 22, 1936 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Henry and Jeanne (Walkotten) Haveman.
AB, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 1963. Doctorate (honorary), University Umea, Sweden, 1996.
John Bascom Professor of Economics, Grinnel College, Iowa, 1965-1970. Fellow, Netherlands Institute, Institution Advanced Study,
1975-1976. Tinbergen Professor, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1984-1985.
Professor of Economics, University Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America, since 1970.
(Drawing on examples from Britain and the United States, t...)
(Social Welfare Spending: Accounting For Changes From 1950...)
( The War on Poverty, instituted in 1965 during the admin...)
( Images of poverty shape the debate surrounding it. In 1...)
(Book by Haveman, Robert H., Wolfe, Barbara)
Applied welfare economics (benefit-cost analysis), micro-data simulation modelling, regional modelling, measuring economic well-being, analysis of income distribution, poverty and its determinants, and analysis of social policy.
Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (foreign member).
Married Barbara Lea Kingshof, July 29, 1983. Children: Elizabeth, Jon, Andrea.