Dimensions Of Social Welfare Policy

by Gilbert, Neil; Terrell, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780205408108
• ISBN10: 0205408109
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

The Sixth Edition of Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy presents readers with a comprehensive theoretical and conceptual framework for analyzing a wide range of social welfare policies.Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy illustrates theoretical points by offering examples from a cross-section of program areas including income maintenance, child welfare, model cities, day care, community action, and mental health. The authors show how social theories and individual versus collective value orientations influence policies. The Sixth Edition continues to include a broad overview of the most recent policy trends in the advanced welfare states related to eligibility, finance, delivery, and benefit designs. A new chapter broadens the scope of this book by applying the social policy framework to international policy trends in the advanced welfare states, comparing them to developments in the United States.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Field of Social Welfare Policy	1	(35)
Institutional Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy	2	(10)
Evolving Institutions and the Welfare State	12	(2)
Analytic Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy	14	(3)
Political Perspectives on the Study of Social Welfare Policy	17	(3)
Individualist and Collective Approaches to Planning	20	(2)
Conceptions of the Public Interest	22	(3)
Competing Values: Participation, Leadership, and Expertise	25	(2)
Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners	27	(2)
Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare	29	(4)
Notes	33	(3)
The Modern Welfare State	36	(26)
The Evolving Welfare State	37	(7)
Theories of Welfare Growth	44	(2)
Is America Exceptional?	46	(1)
Welfare Goals	47	(3)
Welfare Scope	50	(1)
Welfare Realms	51	(8)
Emerging Issues: Renegotiating the Boundaries	59	(1)
Notes	60	(2)
A Framework for Social Welfare Policy Analysis	62	(34)
Benefit Allocations in the Social Market and the Mixed Economy of Welfare	63	(4)
Elements of an Analytic Framework: Dimensions of Choice	67	(3)
An Example: The Transformation of Social Services	70	(5)
Application of the Framework	75	(1)
Distributive Justice in Public Assistance	76	(8)
Individual and Collective Values in Public Assistance	84	(3)
Theories, Assumptions, and Social Choice	87	(3)
Emerging Issues: The Search for Equity	90	(2)
Notes	92	(4)
The Basis of Social Allocations	96	(38)
Who Shall Benefit?	97	(2)
Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance	99	(6)
Child Support and Asset Building	105	(1)
Social Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness	106	(8)
Another Perspective on Allocation: A Continuum of Choice	114	(4)
Allocative Principles and Institutional-Residual Conceptions of Social Welfare	118	(2)
Operationalizing the Allocative Principles	120	(5)
Eligibility Versus Access	125	(3)
Emerging Issues: Generational Equity	128	(2)
Notes	130	(4)
The Nature of Social Provision	134	(25)
Basic Forms: Cash Versus In-Kind	134	(7)
Alternative Forms: An Extension of Choice	141	(1)
Vouchers: Balancing Social Control and Consumer Choice	142	(4)
Substance of the Social Provision	146	(3)
Social Provisions as Reflections of Policy Values	149	(3)
Cash, Kind, and the Cycles of Public Assistance	152	(3)
Emerging Issues: Choice for Whom?	155	(1)
Notes	156	(3)
The Design of the Delivery System	159	(41)
Privatization and Commercialization in Service Delivery	160	(8)
Promoting Coherence and Accessibility: Service Delivery Strategies	168	(14)
Unsettled Questions	182	(3)
Selecting Strategies	185	(6)
Emerging Issues: Services Rationing and Managed Care	191	(4)
Notes	195	(5)
The Mode of Finance: Sources of Funds	200	(39)
Sources of Funds	202	(1)
The Philanthropic Contribution	203	(13)
Contributory Schemes and Fee Charging	216	(2)
Public Financing: Not Entirely a Public Matter	218	(14)
Emerging Issues: Financing Social Security	232	(4)
Notes	236	(3)
The Mode of Finance: Systems of Transfer	239	(37)
Centralization, Decentralization, and Their Ideologies	240	(3)
How the Money Flows	243	(5)
How Transfers Are Conditioned	248	(5)
Devolving Public Welfare	253	(2)
AFDC to TANF	255	(14)
Emerging Issues: Immigrants, Social Policy, and the States	269	(5)
Notes	274	(2)
Policy Dimensions: International Trends in the Twenty-First Century	276	(14)
Pressures for Change	277	(4)
Directions of Change	281	(4)
Implications of Change	285	(1)
Notes	286	(4)
Index	290