Martha Derthick and the Art of Policy History: A Scholarly Appreciation
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Edward Berkowitz
Edward Berkowitz is Professor of History and of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. He writes broadly on American social welfare policy, recent American history, and American cultural history, and his most recent book isTHE OTHER WELFARE: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013).
Abstract
This essay examines how Martha Derthick creatively combined history and political science to produce influential analyses of key public programs, such as Social Security.
Prefatory note: I wrote this essay before learning of Martha Derthick’s untimely death in January 2015 in her hometown of Charlottesville. News of her death encourages me to offer the essay as a reflection on, and a tribute to, her long and productive career.
About the author
Edward Berkowitz is Professor of History and of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. He writes broadly on American social welfare policy, recent American history, and American cultural history, and his most recent book is THE OTHER WELFARE: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Politics at the Precipice: Fixing Social Security in 2033
- The Segmented Third Rail: The Politics of Social Security from Carter to Obama
- Unraveling from Within? The Affordable Care Act and Self-Undermining Policy Feedbacks
- Opting In, Opting Out: The Politics of State Medicaid Expansion
- Not Such a CLASS Act: America’s Long-Term Care Problem
- Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom: Entitlements from the Inside
- The Role of the Private Sphere in US Healthcare Entitlements: Increased Spending, Weakened Public Mobilization, and Reduced Equity
- Mistaken for Dead: The Affordable Care Act and the Continued Resilience of Medicare Advantage
- Martha Derthick and the Art of Policy History: A Scholarly Appreciation
- On Martha Derthick
- Martha Derthick and The Influence of Federal Grants: Explaining Federalism
- Book reviews
- Electing the Senate: Senate Elections before the 17th Amendment
- The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
