Mr. Neil GILBERT

Education:

B.A. Brooklyn College (Sociology); MSW, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh).

Areas of specialization:

Comparative welfare state analysis, child welfare, evaluation research.

Courses Taught:

Research Methods (SW 282 AB), Introduction of Social Welfare Policy (SW 220), History and Philosophy of Social Welfare (SW 279).

Research Interests:

Design and evaluation of social service delivery systems; theoretical framework for social policy analysis; evaluative research; the welfare state; administration and organizational theory; family policy and child abuse prevention; comparative social welfare.

Selected Publications:

Gilbert, N. (2002) Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2002) Reviewed in The New Republic and The New York Review of Books

Gilbert, N. (1995). Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equity, Yale University Press.

Gilbert, N., Specht, H. & Terrell, P. (1993). Dimensions Of Social Welfare Policy (3rd edition), Prentice-Hall.

Gilbert, N. & Gilbert, B. (1989). The Enabling State: Modern Welfare Capitalism In America, Oxford University Press.

Gilbert, N. (1984). Capitalism and The Welfare State, Yale University Press. New York Times Notable Book

Neil Gilbert on Welfare, Underclass, and Working poor:

As the American public celebrates the good news of a booming economy, declining rates of crime and illegitimacy, and more than a 40% reduction in the welfare roles, Charles Murray once again sounds the alarm that a large, virulent, and growing underclass is infecting the political and social culture. Murray's concerns are based largely on his interpretation of the facts about crime and illegitimacy, and the presumed influence of underclass culture. On the matter of crime and illegitimacy, the facts are correct, but the interpretations give short shrift to the social complexities inherent in the trends described and create a tenuous link to "cultural degeneration.

Email: berkeley1@msn.com