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Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy
ISBN: 9780205625741 | 0205625746
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 2/23/2009
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Dimensions in Social Welfare Policy provides a comprehensive and widely-used framework for analyzing social welfare policies.The text encourages readers to develop their own thoughts on social welfare policy and to explore policy alternatives. Theoretical points are illustrated with examples from a cross-section of program areas including income maintenance, child welfare, model cities, day care, community action, and mental health. The Seventh Edition continues to include a broad overview of the most recent policy trends in the advanced welfar... MORE
| Preface | |
| The Field of Social Welfare Policy | |
| Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy | |
| Evolving Institutions and the Welfare State | |
| Analytic Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy | |
| Political Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy | |
| Individualist and Collective Approaches to Planning | |
| Conceptions of the Public In... MORE | |
| Competing Values: Participation, Leadership, and Expertise | |
| Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners | |
| Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare | |
| Notes | |
| The Modern Welfare State | |
| The Evolving Welfare State | |
| Theories of Welfare Growth | |
| Is America Exceptional? | |
| Welfare Goals | |
| Welfare Scope | |
| Welfare Realms | |
| Emerging Issues: Renegotiating the Boundaries | |
| Notes | |
| A Framework for Social Welfare Policy Analysis | |
| Benefit Allocations in the Social Market and the Mixed Economy of Welfare | |
| Elements of an Analytic Framework: Dimensions of Choice | |
| An Example: The Transformation of Social Services | |
| Application of the Framework | |
| Distributive Justice in Public Assistance | |
| Individual and Collective Values in Public Assistance | |
| Theories, Assumptions, and Social Choice | |
| Emerging Issues: The Search for Equity | |
| Notes | |
| The Basis of Social Allocations | |
| Who Shall Benefit? | |
| Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance | |
| Child Support and Asset Building | |
| Social Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness | |
| Another Perspective on Allocation: A Continuum of Choice | |
| Allocative Principles and Institutional-Residual Conceptions of Social Welfare | |
| Operationalizing the Allocative Principles | |
| Eligibility Versus Access | |
| Emerging Issues: Generational Equity | |
| Notes | |
| The Nature of Social Provision | |
| Basic Forms: Cash Versus In-Kind | |
| Alternative Forms: An Extension of Choice | |
| Vouchers: Balancing Social Control and Consumer Choice | |
| Substance of the Social Provision | |
| Social Provisions as Reflections of Policy Values | |
| Cash, Kind, and the Cycles of Public Assistance | |
| Emerging Issues: Choice for Whom? | |
| Notes | |
| The Design of the Delivery System | |
| Privatization and Commercialization in Service Delivery | |
| Promoting Coherence and Accessibility: Service Delivery Strategies | |
| Unsettled Questions | |
| Emerging Issues: Culturally Competent Service Delivery | |
| Notes | |
| The Mode of Finance: Sources of Funds | |
| Sources of Funds | |
| The Philanthropic Contribution | |
| Contributory Schemes and Fee Charging | |
| Public Financing: Not Entirely a Public Matter | |
| Emerging Issues: Financing Social Security | |
| Notes | |
| The Mode of Finance: Systems of Transfer | |
| Centralization, Decentralization, and Their Ideologies | |
| How the Money Flows | |
| How Transfers Are Conditioned | |
| Devolving Public Welfare | |
| AFDC to TANF | |
| Emerging Issues: Immigrants, Social Policy, and the States | |
| Notes | |
| Policy Dimensions: International Trend in the Twenty-First Century | |
| Pressures for Change | |
| Directions of Change | |
| Implications of Change | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
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