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| Creating The Context For Social Policy Analysis: The Social Problem Context | |
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| Analyzing the Social Problem Background of Social Policies and Social Programs | |
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| A Style Of Policy Analysis For The Practical Public Policy Analyst | |
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| An Overview of a Style of Policy Analysis: A Value-Critical Approach | |
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| the Analysis of Policy Goals and Objectives in Social Programs and Policies | |
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| Who Gets What: the Analysis of Types of Benefits and Services | |
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| Who Gets What, How Much, and Under What Conditions: Analysis of Eligibility Rules | |
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| Analysis of Service-Delivery Systems and Social Policy and Program Design | |
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| How Do We Pay for Social Welfare Policies and Programs? Analysis of Financing | |
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| Analysis of Interactions among Policy Elements | |
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| Analysis Of Social Policies And Social Programs Using Basic Concepts And Evaluation Criteria: An Example | |
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| An Example of Social Policy and Social Program Analysis: Selected Features of Federal Child Welfare Legislation since 1970 Concerned with Child Abuse | |
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| Notes | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |
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| Preface | |
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| Creating The Context For Social Policy Analysis: The Social Problem Context | |
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| Analyzing the Social Problem Background of Social Policies and Social Programs | |
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| The Nature of Social Problems | |
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| Social Problem Analysis | |
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| Problem Definition | |
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| Causes and Consequences | |
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| Ideology and Values | |
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| Gainers and Losers | |
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| Using the Conclusions of Social Problem Analysis to Design Social Policies and Programs and to Judge Their "Fit" to the Social Problem | |
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| Summary | |
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| A Style Of Policy Analysis For The Practical Public Policy Analyst | |
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| An Overview of a Style of Policy Analysis: A Value-Critical Approach | |
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| The Policy and Program Analysis Process: An Overview of the Six Fundamental Policy Elements | |
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| Criteria for a Value-Critical Appraisal of Social Policy and Programs | |
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| Summary | |
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| the Analysis of Policy Goals and Objectives in Social Programs and Policies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Definitions and Basic Concepts for Analysis of Goals and Objectives | |
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| Different Types of Goals and Objectives | |
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| Long-Term/Short-Term Goals and Objectives | |
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| Goals Differ from Latent Social Functions | |
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| Distinguishing between Goals and Objectives | |
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| Objectives (Not Goals) Must Contain Target Group Specifications and Performance Standards | |
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| Why Have Both Goals and Objectives? | |
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| Setting Goals and Objectives in the Personal Social Services | |
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| Social Control and Program and Practice Objectives | |
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| Goals and Objectives Vary According to the Developmental Stage of the Program | |
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| Methods of Identifying Goals and Objectives | |
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| Locate the Enabling Legislation | |
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| Locate Legislative History | |
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| Locate Staff and Committee Studies and Reports | |
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| Check Other "Official" Sources | |
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| Locating Sources for Goals and Objectives in State-Administered and Private Social Programs | |
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| Evaluating Program or Policy System Goals and Objectives: A Value-Critical Approach | |
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| Evaluating the Fit between Goals and Objectives and the Social Problem Analysis | |
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| Evaluating Goals and Objectives against Traditional Economic Criteria: Adequacy, Equity, and Efficiency | |
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| Adequacy | |
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| Equity With Respect to Goals and Objectives | |
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| Efficiency With Respect to Goals and Objectives | |
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| Some Evaluation Criteria Unique to Goals and Objectives | |
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| Clarity | |
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| Measurability | |
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| Manipulability | |
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| Concern with Outcomes, Not Services Provided | |
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| The Analyst's Own Value Perspectives in Evaluating the Merit of Goals and Objectives | |
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| Summary | |
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| Who Gets What: the Analysis of Types of Benefits and Services | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Classification Scheme for Benefit and Service Types | |
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| Summary of Types of Benefits and Services | |
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| Multiple and Interrelated Benefits | |
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| Criteria for Evaluating the Merit of Benefit and Service Types | |
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| Stigmatization, Cost-Effectiveness, Substitutability, Target Efficiency, and Trade-Offs | |
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| The Political and Public Administration Viewpoint | |
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| Criteria for Evaluating the Merit of Benefit Types: Consumer Sovereignty, Coercion, and Intrusiveness | |
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| Criteria for Evaluating the Fit of the Benefit/Service Type to the Social Problem Analysis | |
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| Criteria for Evaluating the Merit of Benefit Forms: Adequacy, Equity, and Efficiency | |
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| Summary | |
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| Who Gets What, How Much, and Under What Conditions: Analysis of Eligibility Rules | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Types of Eligibility Rules | |
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| Eligibility Rules Based on Prior Contributions | |
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| Eligibility by Administrative Rule and Regulation | |
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| Eligibility by Private Contract | |
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| Eligibility by Professional Discretion | |
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| Eligibility by Administrative Discretion | |
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| Eligibility by Judicial Decision | |
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| Eligibility by Means Testing | |
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| Establishing Attachment to the Workforce | |
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| Eligibility Inclusion and Exclusion | |
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| Criteria for Evaluating the Merit of Eligibility Rules | |
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| Fit with the Social Problem Analysis | |
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| Criteria Specific to Eligibility Rules | |
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| Trade-Offs in Evaluating Eligibility Rules | |
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| Overwhelming Costs, Overutilization, and Underutilization | |
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| Work Disincentives, Incentives, and Eligibility Rules | |
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| Procreational Incentives, Marital Instability, and Generational Dependency | |
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| Opportunities for Political Interference via Weak Eligibility Rules | |
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| Summary | |
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| Analysis of Service-Delivery Systems and Social Policy and Program Design | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Social Policy and Program Design | |
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| Program Theory (The Logic Model) | |
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| Program Specification | |
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| Some Different Types of Administration and Delivery of Social Service Programs, Benefits, and Services | |
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| Centralized Service-Delivery Systems | |
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| Client-Centered Management and "Inverted Hierarchy" Service-Delivery Systems | |
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| Federated Service-Delivery Organizations | |
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| Case-Management Service-Delivery Systems | |
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| Staffing with Indigenous Workers as a Service-Delivery Strategy | |
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| Referral Agencies in Delivering Social Service | |
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| Program Consumer/Beneficiary, Client-Controlled Organizations as a Service-Delivery Strategy | |
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| Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Agencies as a Service-Delivery Strategy | |
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| Privatization of Service Delivery | |
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| Criteria for Evaluating Program Administration and Service Delivery | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Services and Benefits Should Be Integrated and Continuous | |
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| Services and Benefits Should Be Easily Accessible | |
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| Organizations Should Be Accountable for Their Actions and Decisions | |
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| Citizens and Consumers Should Be Participating in Organizational Decision Making | |
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| Organizations and Their Staff Must Be Able to Relate to Racial, Gender, and Ethnic Diversity | |
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| Organizations Must Resist the Temptation to Self-Perpetuate | |
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| Summary | |
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| How Do We Pay for Social Welfare Policies and Programs? Analysis of Financing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Evaluative Criteria Specific to Financing | |
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| Analysis of Interactions among Policy Elements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Coentitlement | |
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| Disentitlement | |
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| Contrary Effects | |
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| Duplication | |
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| Summary | |
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| Analysis Of Social Policies And Social Programs Using Basic Concepts And Evaluation Criteria: An Example | |
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| An Example of Social Policy and Social Program Analysis: Selected Features of Federal Child Welfare Legislation since 1970 Concerned with Child Abuse | |
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| The Social Problem Context | |
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| Definition of the Social Problem | |
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| The Ideological Perspective | |
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| Causal Analysis | |
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| Gainers and Losers | |
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| The Judicial Context | |
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| The Historical Context | |
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| The Social Program and Policy System | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Goals and Objectives | |
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| Eligibility Rules | |
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| Form of Benefit and/or Service | |
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| Administration and Service Delivery | |
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| Financing | |
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| Interactions between Basic Policy Elements and between This and Other Programs | |
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| Notes | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |