Poverty, Welfare, and Public Policy

Douglas J.?Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis, program evaluation, and performance management. He has written or edited seventeen books, and has written over 300 articles.

Douglas M. Call is a research associate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He has coauthored (with Douglas Besharov) articles that have appeared in the Wilson Quarterly and the Policy Studies Journal.