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Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy

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ISBN-10: 0205625746

ISBN-13: 9780205625741

Edition: 7th 2010

Authors: Neil Gilbert, Paul Terrell

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Encouraging readers to develop their own thoughts on social welfare policy and to explore policy alternatives, Dimensions of Social Welfare provides a unique framework for analyzing soical welfare policies . The Seventh Edition continues to include a broad overview of the most recent policy trends in the advanced welfare states related to eligibility, finance, delivery, and benefit designs.
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Book details

List price: $115.60
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946

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 Interest
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