Douglas J. Besharov
Douglas J. Besharov, a lawyer and the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, is a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. There, he directs the university's Welfare Reform Academy and teaches courses on family policy, welfare reform, evaluation, and the implementation of social policy. As the director of AEI's Social and Individual Responsibility Project, Mr. Besharov led research on state welfare and Medicaid policy reforms; private and community efforts to restore stability to inner cities; and the effectiveness of federal nutrition, rehabilitation, and vocational training programs;. Peter Germanis is Assistant Director of the University of Maryland’s Welfare Reform Academy. He is author or coauthor of numerous publications on welfare reform, including Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Guide for Scholars and Practitioners, 1997.
Peter Germanis
Peter Germanis is Assistant Director of the University of Maryland’s Welfare Reform Academy. He is author or coauthor of numerous publications on welfare reform, including Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Guide for Scholars and Practitioners, 1997.
Peter H. Rossi
Peter H. Rossi (1921–2006) - S.A. Rice Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). He is a past president of the American Sociological Association and has received awards for work in evaluation from the American Evaluation Association, the American Sociological Association, and the Policy Studies Organization. He has authored or co-authored numerous publications, including Just Punishments: Federal Guidelines and Public Views Compared (1997), Feeding the Poor: An Analysis of Five Federal Nutrition Programs (1997), Evaluation: A Systematic Approach (1993), and Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness (1989).