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--Explores the basics of social policy and program analysis, such as designing new programs or evaluating and improving existing ones.

 

Social Policy and Social Programs is distinctive in providing specific criteria for judging the effectiveness of social policies and programs. These criteria can be applied to the analysis of widely different social services such as counseling and therapeutic services, supportive assistance, and hard benefits like food stamps, cash, and housing vouchers.

 

By focusing especially on social problems, policies, and programs in major practice areas like child welfare, health, poverty, and mental illness, the author provides students with the tools they need to understand and evaluate the programs in which they are doing their field placements.

 

Upon completing this book readers will be able to:





Analyze the effectiveness of current social programs Create new programs based on the criteria provided Apply what they have learned to evaluate their field placement programs

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Excellent...really appreciate the clarity in defining terms and providing examples.

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Preface xi
PART ONE CREATING THE CONTEXT FOR SOCIAL POLICY ANALYSIS: THE SOCIAL PROBLEM CONTEXT
1(26)
1 Analyzing the Social Problem Background of Social Policies and Social Programs
7(20)
The Nature of Social Problems
7(2)
Social Problem Analysis
9(12)
Problem Definition
10(4)
Causes and Consequences
14(3)
Ideology and Values
17(2)
Gainers and Losers
19(2)
Using the Conclusions of Social Problem Analysis to Design Social Policies and Programs and to Judge Their "Fit" to the Social Problem
21(4)
Summary
25(2)
PART TWO A STYLE OF POLICY ANALYSIS FOR THE PRACTICAL PUBLIC POLICY ANALYST
27(138)
2 An Overview of a Style of Policy Analysis: A Value-Critical Approach
29(11)
The Policy and Program Analysis Process: An Overview of the Six Fundamental Policy Elements
33(4)
Criteria for a Value-Critical Appraisal of Social Policy and Programs
37(2)
Summary
39(1)
3 The Analysis of Policy Goals and Objectives in Social Programs and Policies
40(23)
Introduction
41(1)
Definitions and Basic Concepts for Analysis of Goals and Objectives
42(1)
Different Types of Goals and Objectives
43(1)
Long-Term/Short-Term Goals and Objectives
43(1)
Goals Differ from Latent Social Functions
43(1)
Distinguishing between Goals and Objectives
44(1)
Objectives (Not Goals) Must Contain Target Group Specifications and Performance Standards
45(3)
Why Have Both Goals and Objectives?
46(2)
Setting Goals and Objectives in the Personal Social Services
48(2)
Social Control and Program and Practice Objectives
49(1)
Goals and Objectives Vary According to the Developmental Stage of the Program
50(1)
Methods of Identifying Goals and Objectives
50(2)
Step 1 Locate the Enabling Legislation
50(1)
Step 2 Locate Legislative History
50(1)
Step 3 Locate Staff and Committee Studies and Reports
51(1)
Step 4 Check Other "Official" Sources
51(1)
Locating Sources for Goals and Objectives in State-Administered and Private Social Programs
52(1)
Evaluating Program or Policy System Goals and Objectives: A Value-Critical Approach
52(3)
Evaluating the Fit between Goals and Objectives and the Social Problem Analysis
55(1)
Evaluating Goals and Objectives against Traditional Economic Criteria: Adequacy, Equity, and Efficiency
56(2)
Adequacy
56(1)
Equity with Respect to Goals and Objectives
57(1)
Efficiency with Respect to Goals and Objectives
58(1)
Some Evaluation Criteria Unique to Goals and Objectives
58(2)
Clarity
58(1)
Measurability
59(1)
Manipulability
59(1)
Concern with Outcomes, Not Services Provided
60(1)
The Analyst's Own Value Perspectives in Evaluating the Merit of Goals and Objectives
60(2)
Summary
62(1)
4 Who Gets What: The Analysis of Types of Benefits and Services
63(16)
Introduction
64(1)
A Classification Scheme for Benefit and Service Types
64(4)
Summary of Types of Benefits and Services
68(1)
Multiple and Interrelated Benefits
69(1)
Criteria for Evaluating the Merit of Benefit and Service Types
69(4)
Stigmatization, Cost-Effectiveness, Substitutability, Target Efficiency, and Trade-Offs
69(2)
The Political and Public Administration Viewpoint
71(2)
Criteria for Evaluating the Merit of Benefit Types: Consumer Sovereignty, Coercion, and Intrusiveness
73(1)
Criteria for Evaluating the Fit of the Benefit/Service Type to the Social Problem Analysis
74(3)
Criteria for Evaluating the Merit of Benefit Forms: Adequacy, Equity, and Efficiency
77(1)
Summary
78(1)
5 Who Gets What, How Much, and Under What Conditions: Analysis of Eligibility Rules
79(28)
Introduction
80(1)
Types of Eligibility Rules
81(8)
Eligibility Rules Based on Prior Contributions
81(1)
Eligibility by Administrative Rule and Regulation
82(1)
Eligibility by Private Contract
83(1)
Eligibility by Professional Discretion
84(1)
Eligibility by Administrative Discretion
84(2)
Eligibility by Judicial Decision
86(1)
Eligibility by Means Testing
87(1)
Establishing Attachment to the Workforce
88(1)
Eligibility Inclusion and Exclusion
88(1)
Criteria for Evaluating the Merit of Eligibility Rules
89(5)
Fit with the Social Problem Analysis
89(2)
Criteria Specific to Eligibility Rules
91(3)
Trade-Offs in Evaluating Eligibility Rules
94(1)
Overwhelming Costs, Overutilization, and Underutilization
95(3)
Work Disincentives, Incentives, and Eligibility Rules
98(3)
Procreational Incentives, Marital Instability, and Generational Dependency
101(3)
Opportunities for Political Interference via Weak Eligibility Rules
104(1)
Summary
105(2)
6 Analysis of Service-Delivery Systems and Social Policy and Program Design
107(31)
Introduction
108(1)
Social Policy and Program Design
108(6)
Program Theory (the Logic Model)
111(2)
Program Specification
113(1)
Some Different Types of Administration and Delivery of Social Service Programs, Benefits, and Services
114(13)
Centralized Service-Delivery Systems
115(1)
Client-Centered Management and "Inverted Hierarchy" Service-Delivery Systems
116(1)
Federated Service-Delivery Organizations
117(1)
Case-Management Service-Delivery Systems
117(2)
Staffing with Indigenous Workers as a Service-Delivery Strategy
119(1)
Referral Agencies in Delivering Social Service
120(1)
Program Consumer/Beneficiary, Client-Controlled Organizations as a Service-Delivery Strategy
121(1)
Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Agencies as a Service-Delivery Strategy
122(5)
Privatization of Service Delivery
127(2)
Criteria for Evaluating Program Administration and Service Delivery
129(7)
Introduction
129(1)
Services and Benefits Should Be Integrated and Continuous
129(1)
Services and Benefits Should Be Easily Accessible
130(1)
Organizations Should Be Accountable for Their Actions and Decisions
131(3)
Citizens and Consumers Should Be Participating in Organizational Decision Making
134(2)
Organizations and Their Staff Must Be Able to Relate to Racial, Gender, and Ethnic Diversity
136(1)
Organizations Must Resist the Temptation to Self-Perpetuate
136(1)
Summary
137(1)
7 How Do We Pay for Social Welfare Policies and Programs? Analysis of Financing
138(20)
Introduction
138(9)
Show Us the Money
139(4)
Funding of Foster Care
143(4)
Evaluative Criteria Specific to Financing
147(10)
Making It Real
155(2)
Summary
157(1)
8 Analysis of Interactions among Policy Elements
158(7)
Introduction
158(1)
Coentitlement
159(1)
Disentitlement
160(1)
Contrary Effects
161(2)
Duplication
163(1)
Summary
164(1)
PART THREE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL POLICIES AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS USING BASIC CONCEPTS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA: AN EXAMPLE
165(22)
9 An Example of Social Policy and Social Program Analysis: Selected Features of Federal Child Welfare Legislation since 1970 Concerned with Child Abuse
167(20)
The Social Problem Context
168(6)
Definition of the Social Problem
169(1)
The Ideological Perspective
170(2)
Causal Analysis
172(2)
Gainers and Losers
174(1)
The Judicial Context
174(1)
The Historical Context
175(2)
The Social Program and Policy System
177(8)
Introduction
177(1)
Goals and Objectives
177(1)
Eligibility Rules
178(1)
Form of Benefit and/or Service
179(1)
Administration and Service Delivery
180(4)
Financing
184(1)
Interactions between Basic Policy Elements and between This and Other Programs
185(1)
Summary
185(2)
Endnotes 187(8)
Index 195
Donald Chambers received his undergraduate degree in Biology and Psychology from Stanford University in 1950, his Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Nebraska in 1952 and his Doctoral degree from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1967. He practiced as a social worker in Nebraska for nine years and was Director of a regional mental health clinic in Pocatello, Idaho for three years before his appointment to the staff of the Mental Health Institute at Clarinda, Iowa.  He retired after 27 years as a Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas where he taught social policy courses and evaluation research for many years. He did research at the British Library in London, England, on policy topics, primarily the British Workman's Compensation system and the British tradition of social policy. In various years he was the recipient of Fulbright Research awards for the study of adoption law and administration in Central American countries. He is the author of a book on Evaluation Research as well as on a method for the analysis of Social Policy and Programs. Over the years he published in leading policy journals in both England and the United States.

 

Jane Bonk has a Bachelor of Liberal Arts for St. Johns College, a Masters from the School of Social Services Administration, University of Chicago, and earned a Ph.D. from Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago. She has worked as a practitioner and an administrator for over thirty years in both non-profit and for-profit social welfare organizations in child welfare and mental health. She has taught at the Masters Level in social work. Currently, she is a Commissioner for the Council on Accreditation (COA) where she has been very active in implementing The Hague Treaty for International Adoption.