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Give students the tools to analyze social welfare policy:

• Provides the most comprehensive and widely-used analytical frameworks for understanding the design of social welfare policy, enabling students to identify alternative choices and to understand the consequences of each alternative.
• Chapter 3 examines different definitions of social justices and how they apply to policy designs, enhancing student understanding of policy analysis within the context of promoting social justice.

Pedagogical Features:

• Features such as boxes, case studies, charts and graphs appear throughout the text, helping students apply the concepts learned.

New To This Edition

• NEW! Strategies for cultural responsiveness in service delivery (Chapter 6)
• NEW! Social Accounting, which introduces alternative frameworks for comparative analyses of social welfare expenditures in the advanced industrial countries (Chapter 2)
• Historic trends leading to the rise of the Enabling State are found in Chapter 2. 
• Charles Murray's proposal for an annual guaranteed income is discussed.
• NEW! Discussion of technology of electronic benefit transfers (EBTs) are found in Chapter 5.
• Present data on Basic Needs budgets (Chapter 3)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface    

1 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    

Individual and Community Approaches to Planning            

Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Social work Praactice    

Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare    

Notes   

2 The Modern Welfare State    

The Evolving Welfare State    

Theories of Welfare Growth    

Is America Exceptional?    

Welfare Goals    

Welfare Scope    

Welfare Realms    

Emerging Issues: The New Social Accounting   

Notes    

3 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   

4 The Basis of Social Allocations    

Who Shall Benefit?    

Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance

A Negative Income Tax for Workers: The earned Income Tax Credit    

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    

5 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    

6 The Design of the Delivery System    

Privatization and Commercialization in Service Delivery    

Promoting Coherence and Accessibility: Service Delivery Strategies    

Unsettled Questions    

Controlling Costs: Services Rationing and Managed Care

Emerging Issues: Culturally Competent Service Delivery

Notes   

7 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    

8 The Mode of Finance: Systems of Transfer    

Centralization, Decentralization, and Their Ideologies    

How the Money Flows    

How Transfers Are Conditioned    

Devolving Public Welfare    

Emerging Issues: Immigrants, Social Policy, and the States    

Notes   

9 Policy Dimensions: International Trends in the Twenty-First Century    

Pressures for Change    

Directions of Change    

Implications of Change    

Notes    

Index    

Courses

Social Welfare Policy  (Social Work / Family Therapy / Human Services)

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• Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy, 6/E
  Gilbert & Terrell
  ©2005  |  Pearson  |  Paper; 320 pp  |  Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0205408109  |  ISBN-13: 9780205408108
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  This text provides students with the most comprehensive and widely-used theoretical and conceptual framework for analyzing the design of a wide range of social welfare policies.

  Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy 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 authors show how social theories and individual versus collective value orientations influence policies. The Sixth 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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Themes of the Times for Social Welfare Policy, 2/E
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