American social welfare policy a pluralist approach Howard Jacob Karger, David Stoesz.
Detalles de publicación: Boston Pearson/A and B c2005.Edición: 4th edDescripción: xv, RN-69, 537 p. ill. 24 cmISBN:- 0205420737
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This best-selling text provides a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining such cutting-edge issues as technology and social welfare policy and the relationship between tax policy and social welfare policy. American Social Welfare Policy examines how the major sectors of social welfare policy-the voluntary, governmental, corporate, and private sectors-operate and co-exist (the pluralist approach). It also offers a clear, user-friendly framework for policy analysis and coverage of the impact of welfare reform legislation. The Research Navigator Edition includes 32 pages of new content concerning how to use Research Navigator for the Helping Professions in conjunction with the text. This material goes chapter-by-chapter highlighting research and writing activities pertinent to the content. An access code to Research NavigatoraA A website is also included in the front of the text.This website gives students access to the ContentSelect Research database, which contains thousands of scholarly journals and popular publications, as well as to the New York Times Search by subject archive, which has a complete year of full-text articles organized by academic subject.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1: American social welfare policy -- Social policy and the American welfare state -- Social welfare policy research: A framework for policy analysis -- Technology and social policy -- Discrimination in American society -- Poverty in America -- pt. 2: The voluntary and for-profit social sectors -- The voluntary sector today -- Privatization and human service corporations -- pt. 3: The government sector -- The making of governmental policy -- Tax policy and income distribution -- Social insurance programs -- Public assistance programs -- The American health care system -- Mental health and substance abuse policy -- Criminal justice -- Child welfare policy -- Housing policies -- The politics of food policy and rural life -- pt. 4: The welfare state in perspective -- The American welfare state in international perspective.
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- This best-selling text provides a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining such cutting-edge issues as technology and social welfare policy and the relationship between tax policy and social welfare policy
- Highlights of the New Editon: 60 pages of new content provides students and instructors with chapter by chapter highlights of research activities, illustrating how textual content can be used in conjunction with Research Navigatortrade; for the Helping Professions to improve student research and writing skills
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- Provides students with a comprehensive overview of the social, political, and economic forces that shape social welfare policy and offers a user-friendly framework for policy analysis
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