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• Preface(p. ix)
• 1 The Field of Social Welfare Policy(p. 1)
• Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy(p. 2)
• Evolving Institutions and the Welfare State(p. 12)
• Analytic Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy(p. 14)
• Political Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy(p. 18)
• Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners(p. 21)
• Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare(p. 23)
• Notes(p. 26)
• 2 The Modern Welfare State(p. 29)
• The Evolving Welfare State(p. 29)
• Theories of Welfare Growth(p. 38)
• Is America Exceptional?(p. 40)
• Today's Welfare State(p. 41)
• Welfare Scope(p. 43)
• Welfare Realms(p. 45)
• Emerging Issues: Renegotiating the Boundaries(p. 52)
• Notes(p. 53)
• 3 A Framework for Social Welfare Policy Analysis(p. 55)
• Benefit Allocations in the Social Market and the Mixed Economy of Welfare(p. 56)
• Elements of an Analytic Framework: Dimensions of Choice(p. 60)
• An Example: The Transformation of Social Services(p. 63)
• Application of the Framework(p. 69)
• Distributive Justice in Public Assistance(p. 70)
• Individual and Collective Values in Public Assistance(p. 77)
• Theories, Assumptions, and Social Choice(p. 80)
• Emerging Issues: The Search for Equity(p. 83)
• Notes(p. 85)
• 4 The Basis of Social Allocations(p. 89)
• Who Shall Benefit?(p. 89)
• Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance(p. 93)
• Child Support and Asset Building Proposals(p. 97)
• Social Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness(p. 99)
• Another Perspective on Allocation: A Continuum of Choice(p. 108)
• Allocative Principles and Institutional-Residual Conceptions of Social Welfare(p. 112)
• Operationalizing the Allocative Principles(p. 113)
• Eligibility Versus Access(p. 118)
• Emerging Issues: Generational Equity(p. 120)
• Notes(p. 122)
• 5 The Nature of Social Provision(p. 126)
• Basic Forms: Cash Versus In-Kind(p. 126)
• Alternative Forms: An Extension of Choice(p. 132)
• Vouchers: Balancing Social Control and Consumer Choice(p. 134)
• Substance of the Social Provision(p. 137)
• Social Provisions as Reflections of Policy Values(p. 141)
• What Is Not Provided?(p. 144)
• Cash, Kind, and the Cycles of Public Assistance(p. 147)
• Emerging Issues: Choice for Whom?(p. 149)
• Notes(p. 150)
• 6 The Design of the Delivery System(p. 154)
• Privatization and Commercialization in Service Delivery(p. 155)
• Promoting Coherence and Accessibility: Service Delivery Strategies(p. 163)
• Unsettled Questions(p. 178)
• Selecting Strategies(p. 180)
• Emerging Issues: Services Rationing and Managed Care(p. 186)
• Notes(p. 190)
• 7 The Mode of Finance: Sources of Funds(p. 195)
• Sources of Funds(p. 196)
• The Philanthropic Contribution(p. 198)
• Contributory Schemes and Fee Charging(p. 211)
• Public Financing: Not Entirely a Public Matter(p. 214)
• Emerging Issues: Financing Social Security(p. 227)
• Notes(p. 231)
• 8 The Mode of Finance: Systems of Transfer(p. 234)
• Centralization, Decentralization, and Their Ideologies(p. 235)
• How the Money Flows(p. 238)
• How Transfers Are Conditioned(p. 243)
• Devolving Public Welfare(p. 249)
• AFDC to TANF(p. 251)
• Emerging Issues: Immigrants, Social Policy, and the States(p. 267)
• Notes(p. 271)
• 9 Who Plans? Choices in the Process of Policy Formation(p. 273)
• Planning Models(p. 273)
• Individualist and Collective Approaches to Planning(p. 278)
• The Planner's Role(p. 280)
• Planning in Model Cities(p. 281)
• Conceptions of the Public Interest(p. 283)
• Competing Values: Participation, Leadership, and Expertise(p. 286)
• Shifting Power to City Hall(p. 290)
• Social Welfare Planning: Drift or Design?(p. 292)
• Emerging Issues: The Rise of Experimental Design in Policy-Oriented Research(p. 293)
• Notes(p. 294)
• Index(p. 297)