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Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy

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Instructor: Prof. Martin Rein
Term: Fall 2003
Level: Undergraduate
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Poverty, Public Policy and Controversy

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Lecture 1: Orientation Session; Syllabus, and Summary Sheet

Lecture 2: Policy Controversy and the Role of Values in Problem Definition

Lecture 3: The Concept and Measurement of Poverty in the United States

Lecture 4: Other Approaches to Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty

Lecture 5: Roundtable Discussion on the Concept and Measurement of Poverty (student led)

Lecture 6: Institutional Design of Poverty Programs: Controversy over Responsibility, the Public-Private Mix Continued

Lecture 7: The Public Private Mix Controversy in Pension Policy

Lecture 8: The Public Private Mix Controversy in Social Service Policy: Profit and Non Profit (Non-Sectarian and Faith-Based)

Lecture 9: Roundtable Discussion on the Public-Private Mix

Lecture 10: The Underclass Controversy

Lecture 11: Taking Stock and Starting Discussion of the Underclass Debate

Lecture 12: Analyzing and Writing Reading Arguments

Lecture 13: Moving to Opportunity

Lecture 14: The Controversy over Welfare Reform

Lecture 15: Dependency in a Comparative Perspective

Lecture 16: The American Reform of its Welfare System

Lecture 17: Roundtable Discussion of Welfare Reform

Lecture 18: Political Disenfranchisement

Lecture 19: Economic Growth: Poverty and the I.Q. Controversy

Lecture 20: The Controversy of Political Disenfranchisement: Poverty as a Lack of Power Crime Deviance and Poverty Roundtable Discussion on the Underclass Debate

Lecture 21: Economic Power

Lecture 22: Roundtable Discussion on Disenfranchisement

Lecture 23: Social Science Contribution to Controversy