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Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy

by: Gilbert, Neil; Terrell, Paul

Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy

by: Gilbert, Neil; Terrell, Paul

ISBN 13:
9780205337637
ISBN 10:
0205337635
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2002
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Summary

This social welfare policy text provides a comprehensive theoretical framework for the analysis of social welfare policy. The text illustrates theoretical points by offering examples from a cross-section of program areas including income maintenance, child welfare, model cities, day care, community action, and mental health. The book also shows how social theories and individual versus collective value orientations influence policies

Preface

The Field of Social Welfare Policy

(28)

Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy

(10)

Evolving Institutions and the Welfare State

(2)

Analytic Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy

(4)

Political Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy

(3)

Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners

(2)

Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare

(6)

Notes

(3)

The Modern Welfare State

(26)

The Evolving Welfare State

(9)

Theories of Welfare Growth

(2)

Is America Exceptional?

(1)

Today's Welfare State

(2)

Welfare Scope

(2)

Welfare Realms

(7)

Emerging Issues: Renegotiating the Boundaries

(1)

Notes

(2)

A Framework for Social Welfare Policy Analysis

(34)

Benefit Allocations in the Social Market and the Mixed Economy of Welfare

(4)

Elements of an Analytic Framework: Dimensions of Choice

(3)

An Example: The Transformation of Social Services

(6)

Application of the Framework

(1)

Distributive Justice in Public Assistance

(7)

Individual and Collective Values in Public Assistance

(3)

Theories, Assumptions, and Social Choice

(3)

Emerging Issues: The Search for Equity

(2)

Notes

(4)

The Basis of Social Allocations

(37)

Who Shall Benefit?

(4)

Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance

(4)

Child Support and Asset Building Proposals

(2)

Social Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness

(9)

Another Perspective on Allocation: A Continuum of Choice

108

(4)

Allocative Principles and Institutional-Residual Conceptions of Social Welfare

112

(1)

Operationalizing the Allocative Principles

113

(5)

Eligibility Versus Access

118

(2)

Emerging Issues: Generational Equity

120

(2)

Notes

122

(4)

The Nature of Social Provision

126

(28)

Basic Forms: Cash Versus In-Kind

126

(6)

Alternative Forms: An Extension of Choice

132

(2)

Vouchers: Balancing Social Control and Consumer Choice

134

(3)

Substance of the Social Provision

137

(4)

Social Provisions as Reflections of Policy Values

141

(3)

What Is Not Provided?

144

(3)

Cash, Kind, and the Cycles of Public Assistance

147

(2)

Emerging Issues: Choice for Whom?

149

(1)

Notes

150

(4)

The Design of the Delivery System

154

(41)

Privatization and Commercialization in Service Delivery

155

(8)

Promoting Coherence and Accessibility: Service Delivery Strategies

163

(15)

Unsettled Questions

178

(2)

Selecting Strategies

180

(6)

Emerging Issues: Services Rationing and Managed Care

186

(4)

Notes

190

(5)

The Mode of Finance: Sources of Funds

195

(39)

Sources of Funds

196

(2)

The Philanthropic Contribution

198

(13)

Contributory Schemes and Fee Charging

211

(3)

Public Financing: Not Entirely a Public Matter

214

(13)

Emerging Issues: Financing Social Security

227

(4)

Notes

231

(3)

The Mode of Finance: Systems of Transfer

234

(39)

Centralization, Decentralization, and Their Ideologies

235

(3)

How the Money Flows

238

(5)

How Transfers Are Conditioned

243

(6)

Devolving Public Welfare

249

(2)

AFDC to TANF

251

(16)

Emerging Issues: Immigrants, Social Policy, and the States

267

(4)

Notes

271

(2)

Who Plans? Choices in the Process of Policy Formation

273

(24)

Planning Models

273

(5)

Individualist and Collective Approaches to Planning

278

(2)

The Planner's Role

280

(1)

Planning in Model Cities

281

(2)

Conceptions of the Public Interest

283

(3)

Competing Values: Participation, Leadership, and Expertise

286

(4)

Shifting Power to City Hall

290

(2)

Social Welfare Planning: Drift or Design?

292

(1)

Emerging Issues: The Rise of Experimental Design in Policy-Oriented Research

293

(1)

Notes

294

(3)

Index

297

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