S
Sanford F. Schram
Researcher at City University of New York
Publications - 123
Citations - 5446
Sanford F. Schram is an academic researcher from City University of New York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Welfare & Welfare reform. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 116 publications receiving 5011 citations. Previous affiliations of Sanford F. Schram include Bryn Mawr College & American Political Science Association.
Papers
More filters
Book
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that poverty governance - how social welfare policy choices get made, how authority gets exercised, and how collective pursuits get organized - has been transformed in the United States by two significant developments: the rise of paternalism has promoted a more directive and supervisory approach to managing the poor.
Journal ArticleDOI
Setting the terms of relief: Explaining state policy choices in the devolution revolution
TL;DR: Howard et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the factors that led states to make restrictive policy choices after 1996 and used this analysis to evaluate general -theories of welfare politics and found that state policies have been shaped by a variety of social and political forces, but especially by the racial composition of families who rely on program benefits.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback
Joe Soss,Sanford F. Schram +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the strategic use of public policy as a tool for reshaping public opinion, and finds that welfare reform in the 1990s produced few changes in mass opinion and proposes a general framework to analyze mass feedback effects.
BookDOI
Real social science: Applied phronesis
TL;DR: Real Social Science as discussed by the authors presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, which represents an original perspective within the social sciences, and this volume gives readers for the first time a set of studies exemplifying what applied Phronesis looks like in practice.
Posted Content
Deciding to Discipline: Race, Choice, and Punishment on the Frontlines of Welfare Reform
TL;DR: The authors investigate how implicit racial biases and discrediting social markers interact to shape officials' decisions to impose sanctions and find that case managers are more likely to recommend sanctions for Latina and black clients, but not white clients.