Analysing Social Policy

Author : Stephen Sinclair
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447313925
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Social Policy Analysis written by Stephen Sinclair and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a political climate that is ever more focused on austerity and efficiency, it is crucial that those who advocate for, support, and implement social policy know how to analyze it and understand its effects, successes, and failures. This volume offers a clear introduction to social policy analysis, starting from the question of why social policy analysis is worthwhile, then moving on to how it can be used to consider approaches to a wide range of social welfare issues.

Author : Daniel Béland
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447306449
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language written by Daniel Béland and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social policy scholars and practitioners have long employed concepts such as "welfare state" and "social security"--but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? What characterizes social policy language in different places, and how do some social concepts travel between them? Addressing such questions in a systematic manner, the contributors to this collection analyze the concepts and language used to describe contemporary social policy. Combining detailed chapters on particular countries with broader comparative chapters, the book offers a variety of perspectives on just what we mean when we use these terms.

Author : Mary Katherine O'Connor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118044193
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Social Policy written by Mary Katherine O'Connor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From formulation to implementation, an approach to the analysis of social policy through the lens of research Analyzing Social Policy prepares professionals and students to make better informed decisions related to identifying and understanding the intricacies and potential impact of social policymaking and enactment on their organization as well as their individual responsibilities, goals, and objectives. Authors Mary Katherine O'Connor and F. Ellen Netting thoroughly examine various approaches to the analysis of social policies and how these approaches provide the knowledge, multiple perspectives, and other resources to understand and grasp the nuances of social policy in all its complexity. Comprehensive and based on research, Analyzing Social Policy explores: An overview of the practice of social policy analysis The role of research in guiding policy analysis The idea of policy analyses as research Themes, assumptions, and major theories that undergird rational models of policy analysis Nonrational themes, assumptions, and major theories informing nontraditional interpretive and critical approaches to policy analysis Strategies for applying selected models and approaches when engaging in policy analysis as research Providing practitioners and students with a set of tools that can be used to enhance an understanding of what constitutes policy as well as acceptable standards for critical analysis of policy, this resource enables policy advocates—regardless of their level—to be political, strategic, and critical in their work.

Author : Ron Haskins
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Models for Analysis of Social Policy written by Ron Haskins and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the historical development of social policy analysis, emphasizing the factors that promoted its development, the need for social policy analysis, and the fields of application for social policy analysis.

Author : Hobart A Burch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136382437
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices written by Hobart A Burch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices gives you a thorough introduction to social welfare policy analysis. The knowledge you’ll gain from its pages will enable you to understand and evaluate individual policy issues and choices by exploring the possible choices, the effects and implications of each alternative choice, and the factors that influence each choice. Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices provides frameworks for making basic social policy choices and applying them to specific instances. You’ll find its depth of insight into the larger framework in which social policy decisions are made--beliefs, values, and interests--and its historical perspective on current “new” issues unique and invaluable. The book’s approach is to develop a framework for looking at the underlying issues, ideologies, social and economic forces, culture, and institutionalized inequalities that are constant within this changing mass. Specifically, Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices provides frameworks for looking at beliefs about: human nature the nature of society ways of thinking values and the moral and ethical implications of those values roots of those values in religion, culture, historical traditions, myths, and rationalized self-interests The insight offered in Social Welfare Policy Analysis and Choices will allow you to determine your own positioning; understand for strategic purposes what direction opponents, potential allies, and others are coming from; and develop a priorities perspective to guide compromises when the optimum policy is not attainable.

Author : Richard K. Caputo
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483310930
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policy Analysis for Social Workers written by Richard K. Caputo and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy Analysis for Social Workers offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to understanding the process of policy development and analysis for effective advocacy. This user-friendly model helps students get excited about understanding policy as a product, a process, and as performance—a unique “3-P” approach to policy analysis as competing texts often just focus on one of these areas. Author Richard K Caputo efficiently teaches the purpose of policy and its relation to social work values, discusses the field of policy studies and the various kinds of analysis, and highlights the necessary criteria (effectiveness, efficiency, equity, political feasibility, social acceptability, administrative, and technical feasibility) for evaluating public policy.

Author : Michael C. Munger
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393973990
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Policy written by Michael C. Munger and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the conceptual foundations of policy analysis including the basics of the welfare-economics paradigm and cost-benefit analysis.

Author : Hudson, John
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847422675
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Policy Process written by Hudson, John and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the latest and best social science to explain how and why social policy change occurs. Focusing on the policy making process as the key to change, it uses core concepts of policy analysis, one in each chapter, to build up a fully worked explanation of social policy change and to equip readers with knowledge that can be applied to any aspect of welfare policy and public and social policy more generally. This second edition of the book updates the bestselling first edition for the post-Blair era with international case studies from numerous countries."Understanding the policy process":·[vbTab]introduces the main themes of the policy analysis literature;·[vbTab]demonstrates the centrality of the policy making process to an understanding of the operational possibilities and limits of social policy;·[vbTab]takes account of macro-, meso- and micro-level approaches to social policy analysis;·[vbTab]uses clear explanations of key concepts, up-to-date illustrative case studies and examples to increase students' understanding of the theory and practice of policy analysis;·[vbTab]uses a comparative approach.

Author : Michael James Hill
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Policy written by Michael James Hill and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of social policy which deals with policy issues, rather than offering descriptions of specific policies.

Author : Carol Bacchi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137525460
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poststructural Policy Analysis written by Carol Bacchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government’s best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce “problems” as particular sorts of problems, with important political implications. Governing, it is argued, takes place through these problematizations. According to the authors, interrogating policies and policy proposals as problematizations involves asking questions about the assumptions they rely upon, how they have been made, what their effects are, as well as how they could be unmade. To enable this form of critical analysis, this book introduces an analytic strategy, the “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” (WPR) approach. It features examples of applications of the approach with topics as diverse as obesity, economic policy, migration, drug and alcohol policy, and gender equality to illustrate the growing popularity of this way of thinking and to provide clear and useful examples of poststructural policy analysis in practice.