| Edition |
5th ed. |
| Description |
x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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 -- Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners -- Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare -- The Modern Welfare State -- The Evolving Welfare State -- Theories of Welfare Growth -- Is America Exceptional? -- Today's Welfare State -- Welfare Scope -- Welfare Realms -- Emerging Issues: Renegotiating the Boundaries -- 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 -- The Basis of Social Allocations -- Who Shall Benefit? -- Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance -- Child Support and Asset Building Proposals -- 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. |
| Subject |
Public welfare.
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Social choice.
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Public welfare -- United States.
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United States -- Social policy.
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Public welfare. (OCoLC)fst01083250
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Social choice. (OCoLC)fst01122336
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Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Terrell, Paul.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gilbert, Neil, 1940- Dimensions of social welfare policy. 5th ed. Boston : Allyn and Bacon, ©2002 (OCoLC)606643955 |
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Online version: Gilbert, Neil, 1940- Dimensions of social welfare policy. 5th ed. Boston : Allyn and Bacon, ©2002 (OCoLC)609442391 |
| ISBN |
0205337635 (alk. paper) |
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9780205337637 (alk. paper) |
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