Ron Haskins is an American

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

, focusing in several political topic issues, currently the Cabot Family Chair at

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and an Elected Fellow of the

American Academy of Political and Social Science The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences. Sparked by Professor Edmund J. James and drawing from members of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore ...

. He won a

Daniel Patrick Moynihan prize Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

with Isabel Sawhill.

Life

He graduated from

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which r ...

with a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology in 1975. He served on the staff of the

House Ways and Means Committee The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives. The committee has jurisdiction over all taxation, tariffs, and other revenue-raising measures, as well as a number of other progra ...

, and presidential Senior Advisor for Welfare Policy.

Works

*''Show Me the Evidence: Obama's Fight for Rigor and Evidence in Social Policy'' Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015. (With Greg Margolis.) , *''Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law'' Washington : Brookings Institution Press, 2007. ,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haskins, Ron Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American political scientists United States presidential advisors Brookings Institution people