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Scott W. Allard, Ph.D

Biography

Scott W. Allard is an Associate Professor in the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration.  His primary research interests are in social welfare policy, poverty, and nonprofit organizations in the United States.

To better understand the contours of social service provision in the U.S., Professor Allard recently completed two surveys of more than 2,000 governmental and nonprofit social service providers in seven urban and rural communities.  His book entitled, Out of Reach:  Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State (Yale University Press, 2009), explores the accessibility and stability of social service agencies serving low-income populations in urban America.  He is currently working on a project exploring the changing geography of poverty in urban and suburban communities.

Prior to his faculty position at the University of Chicago, Professor Allard was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University.  Professor Allard has been a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Urban Scholar, as well as a visiting scholar at the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan, the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.

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Publications

• Allard, S.W. 2009. Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Allard, S.W. 2009. "Mismatches and unmet needs: Access to social services in urban and rural America." In Welfare reform and its long-term consequence for America's poor, ed. J. Ziliak. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Allard, S.W. 2008. "Place, race, and access to the safety net." In Colors of poverty, eds. A. Chih Lin & D. Harris. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Allard, S.W. 2007. The changing face of welfare during the Bush administration. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 37(3): 304-32.
• Allard, S.W. 2006. A starting foul in the study of the race to the bottom. Social Science Quarterly 87(4): 782-90.
• Allard, S.W. 2004. Competitive pressures and the emergence of mothers' aid programs in the U.S. Policy Studies Journal 32(4): 521-44.
• Lambright, K. & Allard, S.W. 2004. Making tradeoffs between SSBG and TANF: The interplay of block grant programs. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 34(3): 131-154.
• Allard, S.W. & Danziger, S. 2003. Proximity and opportunity: How residence and race affect the employment of welfare recipients. Housing Policy Debate 13(4): 675-700.
• Allard, S.W., Rosen, D. & Tolman, R. 2003. Access to mental health and substance abuse services among women receiving welfare in Detroit. Urban Affairs Review. 38(6): 787-807.
• Allard, S.W. & Straussman, J. 2003. Using student consulting projects as a capstone in a public administration graduate program. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22(4): 689-701.
• Allard, S.W., Tolman, R. & Rosen, D. 2003. Proximity to service providers and service utilization among welfare recipients: The interaction of place and race. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 22(4): 599-613.
• Allard, S.W., Tolman, R. & Rosen, D. 2003. The geography of need: Spatial distribution of barriers to employment in metropolitan Detroit. Policy Studies Journal 31(3): 293-307.

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