David Stoesz

David Stoesz (/steɪs/) 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 Chair.

David Stoesz
Occupation(s)	academic, policy analyst, social entrepreneur, author
Awards	Fulbright Distinguished Chair awards, UK (2014), Australia (2017)
Academic background
Education	Master of Social Work (1976), Ph.D. (1980)
Alma mater	University of Maryland (1980)
Academic work
Discipline	Social policy
Sub-discipline	Child welfare, national politics
Institutions	San Diego State University, Virginia Commonwealth University
Main interests	Social policy, child welfare, international development, and national politics
Notable works	American Social Welfare Policy, 9th ed. (2022), Welfare State 3.0: Social Policy After the Pandemic (2021)

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.

Bibliography

Books

• Meritocracy, Populism, and the Future of Democracy (2022)
• Welfare State 3.0: Social Policy After the Pandemic (2021)
• Building Better Social Programs: How Evidence is Transforming Public Policy (2020)
• The Investment State (2018)
• The Dynamic Welfare State (2017)
• Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy (2005) ISBN 9780195181203
• A poverty of imagination: Bootstrap capitalism, sequel to welfare reform (2000)

As an editor or co-author

• American Social Welfare Policy, 9th ed. (2022) co-authored with Howard Karger ISBN 9780137472246
• Stoesz, David, Howard Jacob Karger, and Terry E. Carrillo. "A dream deferred: How social work education lost its way and what can be done." (2011).
• 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 (2014): 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 (2003): 279–295.
• Stoesz, David, and Howard Jacob Karger. "Deconstructing welfare: The Reagan legacy and the welfare state." Social Work 38, no. 5 (1993): 619–628.

Awards

Stoesz has received two Fulbright Distinguished Chair awards: in 2014 to the UK, in 2017 to Australia.