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Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy

ISBN: 9780205267712 | 0205267718
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Pub. Date: 12/1/1997

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Table of Contents
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Prefaceix
1. The Field of Social Welfare Policy
1(24)
Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy
2(9)
Evolving Institutions and the Welfare State
11(2)
Analytic Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy
13(4)
Political Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy
17(3)
Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners
20(2)
Notes
22(3)
2. The Modern Welfare State
25(25)
The Evolving Welfare State
26(8)
Theories of Welfare Growth
34(2)
Is America Exceptional?
36(1)
Today's Welfare State
37(3)
Welfare Scope
40(1)
Welfare Realms
41(7)
Summary
48(1)
Notes
49(1)
3. A Framework for Social Welfare Policy Analysis
50(33)
Benefit Allocations in the Social Market and the Mixed Economy of Welfare
51(4)
Elements of an Analytic Framework: Dimensions of Choice
55(3)
An Example: The Transformation of Social Services
58(6)
Application of the Framework
64(2)
Distributive Justice in Public Assistance
66(7)
Individual and Collective Values in Public Assistance
73(3)
Theories, Assumptions, and Social Choice
76(3)
Summary
79(1)
Notes
80(3)
4. The Basis of Social Allocations
83(33)
Who Shall Benefit?
84(3)
Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance
87(5)
Social Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness
92(8)
Another Perspective on Allocation: A Continuum of Choice
100(3)
Allocative Principles and Institutional-Residual Conceptions of Social Welfare
103(1)
Operationalizing the Allocative Principles
104(5)
Who Wants To, Who Actually Benefits?
109(3)
Notes
112(4)
5. The Nature of Social Provisions
116(26)
Basic Forms: Cash Versus In-Kind
116(6)
Alternative Forms: An Extension of Choice
122(2)
Vouchers: Balancing Social Control and Consumer Choice
124(3)
Substance of the Social Provision
127(4)
Social Provisions as Reflections of Policy Values
131(3)
What Is Not Provided?
134(3)
Cash, Kind, and the Cycles of Public Assistance
137(2)
Notes
139(3)
6. The Design of the Delivery System
142(38)
Privatization and Commercialization of Service Delivery
143(6)
Promoting Coherence and Accessibility: Service Delivery Strategies
149(15)
Unsettled Questions
164(3)
Selecting Strategies
167(6)
Conclusion: Rationing at Century's End
173(2)
Notes
175(5)
7. The Mode of Finance: Sources of Funds
180(35)
Sources of Funds
182(15)
Contributory Schemes and Fee Charging
197(2)
Public Financing: Not Entirely a Public Matter
199(12)
Summary
211(1)
Notes
211(4)
8. The Mode of Finance: Systems of Transfer
215(30)
Centralization, Decentralization, and their Ideologies
216(3)
How the Money Flows
219(5)
How Transfers Are Conditioned
224(7)
Devolving Public Welfare
231(2)
AFDC to TANF
233(8)
Summary
241(2)
Notes
243(2)
9. Who Plans? Choices in the Process of Policy Formation
245
Planning Models
245(5)
Individualist and Collective Approaches to Planning
250(2)
The Planner's Role
252(2)
Planning in Model Cities
254(2)
Conceptions of the Public Interest
256(2)
Competing Values: Participation, Leadership, and Expertise
258(4)
Shifting Power to City Hall
262(3)
Social Welfare Planning: Drift or Design?
265(1)
Notes
266

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