David Stoesz

David Stoesz 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.

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.

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.