Demetrios Caraley

Demetrois Caraley, professor of the Social Sciences at Barnard College, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, conducted research for a book that will analyze cutbacks in federal aid to poor people and poor cities--what he terms a "reversal of the previous fifty years of American domestic policy." In addition to his empirical work, he examined the theoretical implications for American democracy of the refusal of the dominant majority to support help for the cities and the inability of the urban poor and other city dwellers to force policies responsive to their needs.

Working Papers:

• Separating Fiction from Reality: A Case Against Dismantling and Devolving the Federal Safety Net