Public Affairs Discussion Group
"A Discussion on Faith and Social Services Moderated by Joe White"
March 4, 2005
Crawford Hall, Room 14
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Joe White
Department
Chair, Luxenberg Family Professor of
Public Policy, and Director of the
Center for Policy Studiesase
Rosenthal Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies
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Dear Colleagues:
At the beginning of his first term, President Bush put a
lot of emphasis on his “Faith-Based Initiative,” a
policy of involving faith-based organizations more
directly in the delivery of social services. He created
a White House Office for this new “F-BI,” headed by a
very distinguished political scientist, John DiIulio,
and there were many legislative proposals.
Is the F-BI a good idea? And what happened to it,
anyway? Not much has happened on the legislative front
since then, but a lot has happened through
administrative means. Meanwhile, political concerns
about the initiative itself and the Bush
administration’s approaches to social policy in general
have not cooled off at all.
In May of 2001 the Center for Policy Studies hosted a
conference on campus about the F-BI. So I’ve been
following it a bit and, in the absence of a
more-qualified speaker, I’ve prepared some introductory
material for what could be a free-wheeling discussion.
Anyone who’s curious might take a look at the superb
website run by the Rockefeller Institute of Government,
http://www.religionandsocialpolicy.org
It’s a great example of what serious scholars can offer
to policy debate – such as clarification among a fog of
rhetoric. Maybe we can do a bit of the same.
As usual, we should have beverages and cookies, and will
gather from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.. This week’s lunch
is in Crawford Hall Room 14. I look forward to the
discussion.
Best regards,
Joe White
About Our Guest
Professor White came to Case in 2000 as Professor of
Political Science and Director of the Center for Policy
Studies, and became Department Chair in 2003. He came to
Cleveland from New Orleans, where he was Associate
Professor of Health Systems Management in the School of
Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane
University. Previously he was a Research Associate and
then Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C.. He received his A.B. from the
University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the
University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. White’s research interests and publications have
focused on federal budgeting policy and politics,
Congress, health care finance in the United States and
other countries, Social Security and Medicare. His most
recent book is False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat
to Social Security and Medicare is the Campaign to Save
Them (Johns Hopkins University Press 2001; Paperback
with new postscript, 2003). He is also the author of
Competing Solutions: American Health Care Proposals and
International Experience (Brookings, 1995) and, with
Aaron Wildavsky, of The Deficit and the Public
Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the
1980s (University of California Press and The
Russell Sage Foundation, 1989; Paperback with postscript
1991). His most recent publications are “Making
Connections to the Appropriations Process” in Paul
Herrnson et al. eds., The Interest Group Connection
2nd ed (CQ Press, forthcoming); “How is Aging a Health
Policy Problem?” in Yale Journal of Health Policy,
Law and Ethics 4:1 (Winter, 2004); and “Three
Meanings of Capacity; Or, Why the Federal Government Is
Most Likely to Lead on Insurance Access Issues” in
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28:2-3
(April-June, 2003).
His courses include The American Political System,;
The Public Policy Process; Bureacratic Politics in the
U.S.; Legislative Politics; Comparative Public Policy;
Interest Groups in the Policy Process; and Politics,
Policy and Tobacco. In addition, as Director of the
Center for Policy Studies Dr. White organizes public
programming on issues ranging from “War and Peace
between the United States and Iraq” to the teaching of
“Intelligent Design” theory in Ohio public schools, and
from NASA’s Mission to Mars to national missile defense.
For more information on the
Center for Policy Studies; for more on
Professor White’s research.
Spring 2005 Semester Schedule
March 11: Spring Break
March
18, Crawford Hall 14: Dick Baznik, Director, Case
Western Reserve University Institute for the Study of
the University in Society, “Notes on the History of Case
Western Reserve University.”
March 25, Crawford Hall 14: Amos Guiora,
Visiting Professor of Law and Lt. Colonel, Israeli
Defense Forces, “Morality
in Armed Conflict."
April 1: Toepfer Room: Sharona Hoffman,
Associate Professor of Law, “Race and the Law.”
April 8: Toepfer Room: Robert Clarke Brown, Member of the
Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington
Airports Authority and Capital Markets Advisor at the
U.S. Department of Transportation: “The
Politics of Airports.”
April 15: TBA
April 22:
Toepfer Room: Robert Walters Ph.D.,
“Responding to Humanitarian Emergencies – What a
Geologist Learned at the State Department.”
April 29: TBA
Parking:
People who due to mobility concerns need to make special
arrangements for parking for the Public Affairs
Discussion Group Friday Lunch
Series can send their request for parking to,
patricia.cornacchione@case.edu or you can call
216-368-4440 and speak to Pat or Fay to make arrangements.
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