TY - BOOK AU - Gilbert, Neil, AU - Paul Terrell TI - Dimensions of social welfare policy SN - 0205337635 SN - 978020533 AV - HV41 .G37 PY - 2002/// CY - Boston : PB - Allyn and Bacon, N1 - ; 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 ER -