Research Interests
Public policy; federal
budgeting policy and politics; health care finance in the
United States and other rich democracies, especially
health care cost control; Social Security and Medicare;
Congress.
joseph.white@case.edu
Mather House 113
Phone (216) 368-2426
Fax (216) 368-4681
Professor White came to Case in 2000 and became Department Chair in 2003. He
previously was Associate Professor of Health Systems Management in the School of
Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, and before that was
first Research Associate and then Senior Fellow in the Governmental Studies
Program of the Brookings Institution. He received his A.B. in Political Science
from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from
the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. White’s most recent book is False Alarm: Why the Greatest Threat to Social
Security and Medicare is the Campaign to “Save” Them (The Johns Hopkins
University Press, paperback with new postscript, 2003). He also wrote Competing
Solutions: American Health Care Proposals and International Experience
(Brookings Institution, 1995) and coauthored, with Aaron Wildavsky, The Deficit
and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s
(University of California Press and The Russell Sage Foundation, paperback with
postscript 1991). Among his works on budgeting are three articles in Public
Administration Review, the most recent in March/April 2009, and numerous other
articles and book chapters.
Most of Professor White’s work while at CWRU, however, has focused on health
care finance, costs, and reform. He is currently working on a book about health
care cost control. Among his articles about health care since coming to CWRU are
“The Obama Administration’s Options for Health Care Cost Control: Hope vs.
Reality,” with Theodore R. Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander, in Annals of Internal
Medicine 150, No. 7 (7 April 2009); “American Health Care in International
Perspective,” in James A. Morone, Theodor J. Litman, and Leonard S. Robins ed.,
Health Politics and Policy 4th ed. (Florence, KY: Cengage Delmar Learning,
2008); “Markets and Medical Care: The United States, 1993-2005,” in The Milbank
Quarterly 85:3 (September, 2007); “Protecting Medicare: The Best Defense is a
Good Offense,” in Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 32:2 (April,
2007); and “Three Meanings of Capacity: Why the Federal Government is Most
Likely to Lead on Health Insurance Access Issues,” in Journal of Health
Politics, Policy and Law 28:2-3 (April - June 2003). During the health care
reform debate of 2009, he has also posted assorted blog and web publication
analyses of issues, including in Roll Call, the Health Affairs blog, the Health
Care Cost Monitor blog, and http://ourfuture.org/healthcare/white. Some of this
material is available on the Center for Policy Studies website.
He has taught courses in The American Political System; Health Care Politics and
Policy; Bureaucratic Politics in the U.S.; Interest Groups in the Policy
Process; The Public Policy Process; Legislative Politics; Comparative Public
Policy; and Politics, Policy and Tobacco. As Director of the Center for Policy
Studies Professor White convenes the Friday Public Affairs lunch discussions (http://fridaylunch.case.edu)
and has also organized CPS events on topics ranging from Iraq and Vietnam to the
teaching of “intelligent design” theory in Ohio public schools. For more
information about that programming, including podcasts and transcripts of some
programs, see http://policy.case.edu. For more information on Professor White’s
research, please download his
c.v. (PDF file).
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