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| Preface | |
| 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 | |
| Individualist and Collective Approaches to Planning | |
| Conceptions of the Public Interest | |
| Competing Values: Participation, Leadership, and Expertise | |
| Why Policy Analysis Is Relevant to Direct Service Practitioners | |
| Emerging Issues: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare | |
| Notes | |
| The Modern Welfare State | |
| The Evolving Welfare State | |
| Theories of Welfare Growth | |
| Is America Exceptional? | |
| Welfare Goals | |
| Welfare Scope | |
| Welfare Realms | |
| Emerging Issues: Renegotiating the Boundaries | |
| Notes | |
| 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 | |
| Notes | |
| The Basis of Social Allocations | |
| Who Shall Benefit? | |
| Universality and Selectivity in Income Maintenance | |
| Child Support and Asset Building | |
| 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 | |
| Notes | |
| The Nature of Social Provision | |
| Basic Forms: Cash Versus In-Kind | |
| Alternative Forms: An Extension of Choice | |
| Vouchers: Balancing Social Control and Consumer Choice | |
| Substance of the Social Provision | |
| Social Provisions as Reflections of Policy Values | |
| Cash, Kind, and the Cycles of Public Assistance | |
| Emerging Issues: Choice for Whom? | |
| Notes | |
| The Design of the Delivery System | |
| Privatization and Commercialization in Service Delivery | |
| Promoting Coherence and Accessibility: Service Delivery Strategies | |
| Unsettled Questions | |
| Emerging Issues: Culturally Competent Service Delivery | |
| Notes | |
| The Mode of Finance: Sources of Funds | |
| Sources of Funds | |
| The Philanthropic Contribution | |
| Contributory Schemes and Fee Charging | |
| Public Financing: Not Entirely a Public Matter | |
| Emerging Issues: Financing Social Security | |
| Notes | |
| The Mode of Finance: Systems of Transfer | |
| Centralization, Decentralization, and Their Ideologies | |
| How the Money Flows | |
| How Transfers Are Conditioned | |
| Devolving Public Welfare | |
| AFDC to TANF | |
| Emerging Issues: Immigrants, Social Policy, and the States | |
| Notes | |
| Policy Dimensions: International Trend in the Twenty-First Century | |
| Pressures for Change | |
| Directions of Change | |
| Implications of Change | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
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