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Neil Gilbert

Neil Gilbert (born September 18, 1940) is an American social policy scholar and author. He is a Distinguished Professor and the Milton and Gertrude Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Social Services at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. His work centers on social welfare policy, comparative welfare states, family policy, and child welfare, and he is known for a four-dimensional framework for analyzing social welfare policy and for his account of the shift from the welfare state to what he calls the "enabling state".

Gilbert is the author of 15 books, 20 edited volumes, and more than 145 articles. Beyond his welfare-state scholarship, he is most known for challenging progressive assumptions about poverty and inequality. He is the founder of the Family Welfare Research Group at Berkeley and directs its Center for Comparative Welfare State Research. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and a recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid. Provided by Wikipedia