Lawrence M. Mead III

Ph.D. 1973 (political science), M.A. 1968 (political science), Harvard; B.A. 1966 (political science), Amherst College.

American politics and policy making; social policy; implementation; America as a world power

American Political Science Association, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Organization, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

Policy Council, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1999-2000; John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Company Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1994-1995; Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1993-1994; Visiting Distinguished Professor, La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 1987.

“Welfare Politics in Congress,” PS: Political Science & Politics 44, no. 2 (April 2011): 345-56.
Scholasticism in Political Science,” Perspectives on Politics 8, no. 2 (June 2010): 453-64.
Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men, AEI Press, 2011.
Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin, Princeton University Press, 2004.
The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty, Brookings. 1997.
The New Politics of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor in America. Basic Books. 1992.
Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship. Free Press. 1986.

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