Publications by Subject:  

faith-based social services / welfare / charitable choice   


Books

Andrew Walsh, ed. Can Charitable Choice Work?: Covering Religion's Impact on Urban Affairs and Social Services (Hartford, CT: Pew Program on Religion and the News Media and the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, 2001), 200 pages.
( online edition requires Acrobat Reader)

Religion in the News articles

Faith-Based 2.0 , Religion in the News, Summer 2010 by Brendan Kelly.
 The Obama administration re-tools the faith-based initiative.

Keeping the Faith-Based , Religion in the News, Vol. 12 No. 1, by Dennis R. Hoover
President Obama retools the Faith-Based Initiative.

Establishing Religion by Executive Order, Religion in the News, Summer/Fall 2007, by John Cosgriff.
The Supreme Court defends the Bush faith-based initiative.

Status Kuo, Religion in the News, Winter 2007, by Dennis R. Hoover.
The faith-based initiative kissed and told.

Mr. Harper Goes to Ottawa  Religion in the News, Summer 2006, by Dennis R. Hoover.
 Canada gets a faith-based leader of its own.

The Faith-Based Initiative Re-ups, Religion in the News, Spring 2005, by Dennis R. Hoover.
The Bush administration attempts to resuscitate its faith-based initiative.

"Faith Based Administration",  Religion in the News, Summer 2001, by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor.
New 'faith-based' legislation foundered in 2002, but older laws and new regulations began to take hold.
 

"Faith-Based Update: Bipartisan Breakdown", Religion in the News, Summer 2001, [President Bush’s faith-based social service initiative goes from a gimme to a maybe], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor

"The Perils of Polling", Religion in the News, Summer 2001, [asking the wrong question on charitable choice], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor
       Letter to the Editor and Reply

"Faith-Based Ambivalence", Religion in the News, Spring 2001, [the "media elite" turns out to be cautiously open to the President’s advocacy of faith-based social services"], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor

"Ten Issues to Keep an Eye On", Religion in the News, Spring 2001, [issues for journalists to consider as coverage of the faith-based social services initiative moves forward], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor

"Charitable Choice and the New Religious Center", Religion in the News, Spring 2000, [faith-based social services and presidential politics], by Dennis R. Hoover, associate editor

"A Different Spiritual Politics", Religion in the News, Summer 1999, [moving beyond culture wars], by Mark Silk, editor

"A New Establishment?", Religion in the News, Fall 1998, [First Amendment religious issues], by Mark Silk, editor

"Religion and the Post-Welfare State", Religion in the News, Summer 1998, [faith-based social services], by Peter Dobkin Hall, Yale University

"Missing the Boat on Charitable Choice", Religion in the News, Summer 1998, [welfare reform and faith-based organizations], by David Weiner, editorial assistant