Explores the basics of social policy and program analysis, such as designing new programs or evaluating and improving existing ones.
Social Policy and Social Programs is distinctive in providing specific criteria for judging the effectiveness of social policies and programs. These criteria can be applied to the analysis of widely different social services such as counseling and therapeutic services, supportive assistance, and “hard” benefits like food stamps, cash, and housing vouchers.
By focusing especially on social problems, policies, and programs in major practice areas like child welfare, health, poverty, and mental illness, the author provides students with the tools they need to understand and evaluate the programs in which they are doing their field placements.
Learning Goals
Upon completing this book readers will be able to:
- Analyze the effectiveness of current social programs
- Create new programs based on the criteria provided
- Apply what they have learned to evaluate their field placement programs
Table of Contents:
Found in this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
PART ONE: CREATING THE CONTEXT FOR SOCIAL POLICY ANALYSIS: THE SOCIAL PROBLEM CONTEXT
Chapter 1: Analyzing the Social Problem Background of Social Policies and Social Programs
PART TWO: A STYLE OF POLICY ANALYSIS FOR THE PRACTICAL PUBLIC POLICY ANALYST
Chapter 2: An Overview of a Style of Policy Analysis: A Value-Critical Approach
Chapter 3: The Analysis of Policy Goals and Objectives in Social Programs and Policies
Chapter 4: Who Gets What: The Analysis of Types of Benefits and Services
Chapter 5: Who Gets What, How Much, and Under What Conditions: Analysis of Eligibility Rules
Chapter 6: Analysis of Service-Delivery Systems and Social Policy and Program Design
Chapter 7: How Do We Pay for Social Welfare Policies and Programs? Analysis of Financing
Chapter 8: Analysis of Interactions among Policy Elements
PART THREE: ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL POLICIES AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS USING BASIC CONCEPTS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA: AN EXAMPLE
Chapter 9: An Example of Social Policy and Social Program Analysis: Selected Features of Federal Child Welfare Legislation since 1970 Concerned with Child Abuse
Notes
Photo Credits
Index
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
PART ONE: CREATING THE CONTEXT FOR SOCIAL POLICY ANALYSIS: THE SOCIAL PROBLEM CONTEXT
Chapter 1: Analyzing the Social Problem Background of Social Policies and Social Programs
The Nature of Social Problems
Social Problem Analysis
Problem Definition
Causes and Consequences
Ideology and Values
Gainers and Losers
Using the Conclusions of Social Problem Analysis to Design Social Policies and Programs and to Judge Their “Fit” to the Social Problem
Summary
PART TWO: A STYLE OF POLICY ANALYSIS FOR THE PRACTICAL PUBLIC POLICY ANALYST
Chapter 2: An Overview of a Style of Policy Analysis: A Value-Critical Approach
The Policy and Program Analysis Process: An Overview of the Six Fundamental Policy Elements
Criteria for a Value-Critical Appraisal of Social Policy and Programs
Summary
Chapter 3: The Analysis of Policy Goals and Objectives in Social Programs and Policies
Introduction
Definitions and Basic Concepts for Analysis of Goals and Objectives
Different Types of Goal
About the Author :
Donald Chambers received his undergraduate degree in Biology and Psychology from Stanford University in 1950, his Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Nebraska in 1952 and his Doctoral degree from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1967. He practiced as a social worker in Nebraska for nine years and was Director of a regional mental health clinic in Pocatello, Idaho for three years before his appointment to the staff of the Mental Health Institute at Clarinda, Iowa. He retired after 27 years as a Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas where he taught social policy courses and evaluation research for many years. He did research at the British Library in London, England, on policy topics, primarily the British Workman's Compensation system and the British tradition of social policy. In various years he was the recipient of Fulbright Research awards for the study of adoption law and administration in Central American countries. He is the author of a book on Evaluation Research as well as on a method for the analysis of Social Policy and Programs. Over the years he published in leading policy journals in both England and the United States.
Jane Bonk has a Bachelor of Liberal Arts for St. John’s College, a Masters from the School of Social Services Administration, University of Chicago, and earned a Ph.D. from Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. She has worked as a practitioner and an administrator for over thirty years in both non-profit and for-profit social welfare organizations in child welfare and mental health. She has taught at the Master’s Level in social work. Currently, she is a Commissioner for the Council on Accreditation (COA) where she has been very active in implementing The Hague Treaty for International Adoption.
Review :
“Excellent...really appreciate the clarity in defining terms and providing examples.”
-Tammie Glenn, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
