01971nam a22001577a 4500020001600000022001800016050001500034100002000049245006900069250001100138260004100149300004500190500000800235505155300243700001701796 a0205337635  a9780205337637 aHV41b.G37 aGilbert, Neil,  aDimensions of social welfare policy.cNeil Gilbert; Paul Terrell a5th ed aBoston : bAllyn and Bacon, c©2002 ax, 310 pages : billustrations ;c 24 cm a  aThe 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. aPaul Terrell