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Gilbert, Neil,

Dimensions of social welfare policy. Neil Gilbert; Paul Terrell - 5th ed - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, ©2002 - x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm





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.

ISBN: 0205337635

ISSN: 9780205337637

LC Class. No.: HV41 / .G37