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Preface | |
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The Field of Social Welfare Policy | |
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Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy | |
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Evolving Institutions and the Welfare State | |
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Analytic Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy | |
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Political Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy | |
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Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners | |
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Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare | |
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Notes | |
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The Modern Welfare State | |
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The Evolving Welfare State | |
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Theories of Welfare Growth | |
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Is America Exceptional? | |
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Today's Welfare State | |
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Welfare Scope | |
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Welfare Realms | |
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Emerging Issues: Renegotiating the Boundaries | |
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Notes | |
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A Framework for Social Welfare Policy Analysis | |
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Benefit Allocations in the Social Market and the Mixed Economy of Welfare | |
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Elements of an Analytic Framework: Dimensions of Choice | |
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An Example: The Transformation of Social Services | |
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Application of the Framework | |
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Distributive Justice in Public Assistance | |
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Individual and Collective Values in Public Assistance | |
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Theories, Assumptions, and Social Choice | |
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Emerging Issues: The Search for Equity | |
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Notes | |
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The Basis of Social Allocations | |
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Who Shall Benefit? | |
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Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance | |
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Child Support and Asset Building Proposals | |
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Social Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness | |
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Another Perspective on Allocation: A Continuum of Choice | |
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Allocative Principles and Institutional-Residual Conceptions of Social Welfare | |
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Operationalizing the Allocative Principles | |
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Eligibility Versus Access | |
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Emerging Issues: Generational Equity | |
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Notes | |
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The Nature of Social Provision | |
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Basic Forms: Cash Versus In-Kind | |
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Alternative Forms: An Extension of Choice | |
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Vouchers: Balancing Social Control and Consumer Choice | |
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Substance of the Social Provision | |
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Social Provisions as Reflections of Policy Values | |
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What Is Not Provided? | |
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Cash, Kind, and the Cycles of Public Assistance | |
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Emerging Issues: Choice for Whom? | |
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Notes | |
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The Design of the Delivery System | |
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Privatization and Commercialization in Service Delivery | |
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Promoting Coherence and Accessibility: Service Delivery Strategies | |
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Unsettled Questions | |
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Selecting Strategies | |
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Emerging Issues: Services Rationing and Managed Care | |
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Notes | |
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The Mode of Finance: Sources of Funds | |
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Sources of Funds | |
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The Philanthropic Contribution | |
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Contributory Schemes and Fee Charging | |
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Public Financing: Not Entirely a Public Matter | |
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Emerging Issues: Financing Social Security | |
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Notes | |
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The Mode of Finance: Systems of Transfer | |
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Centralization, Decentralization, and Their Ideologies | |
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How the Money Flows | |
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How Transfers Are Conditioned | |
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Devolving Public Welfare | |
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AFDC to TANF | |
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Emerging Issues: Immigrants, Social Policy, and the States | |
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Notes | |
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Who Plans? Choices in the Process of Policy Formation | |
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Planning Models | |
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Individualist and Collective Approaches to Planning | |
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The Planner's Role | |
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Planning in Model Cities | |
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Conceptions of the Public Interest | |
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Competing Values: Participation, Leadership, and Expertise | |
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Shifting Power to City Hall | |
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Social Welfare Planning: Drift or Design? | |
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Emerging Issues: The Rise of Experimental Design in Policy-Oriented Research | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |