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A brief text presenting conflicts and controversies surrounding social welfare policy.   This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series. This series helps students understand and master CSWE’s core competencies with a variety of pedagogy highlighted competency content and critical thinking questions for the competencies throughout.   Essentials of Social Welfare: Politics and Public Policy (a briefer version of Social Welfare: Politics and Public Policy, 7/e) introduces the major social welfare policies and programs in the United States and encourages readers to think about conflicts in social welfare today. It emphasizes the current political aspects of policymaking and major social welfare programs.    In this book, social welfare policy is portrayed as the ever-evolving result of public conflict over social problems, the resources Americans choose to allocate to those problems, the debate over whether these problems can best be solved through government, and the political choices involved in reaching even tentative consensus.   Teaching & Learning Experience Improve Critical Thinking – Includes critical thinking questions in margins and end of chapter review questions that ‘build’ on each other. Explore Current Issues – Includes the most recent data on healthcare reform, the midterm elections, and public policy changes, and more. Apply CSWE Core Competencies – Integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS throughout – highlights competencies and practice behaviors and includes expensive pedagogy. Support Instructors – An Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank (MyTest), Blackboard Test Item File, and PowerPoint presentations are included in the outstanding supplements package.  

Table of Contents:
IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE   BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Introduction: Politics, Rationalism, and Social Welfare Policy Chapter 1: Politics and the Policymaking Process Chapter 2: Analyzing, Implementing, and Evaluating Social Welfare Policy Chapter 3: Politics and the History of Social Welfare Policy Chapter 4: Ending Poverty: Is It An Issue Anymore? Chapter 5: Preventing Poverty: Social Insurance and Personal Responsibility Chapter 6: Disability Policy: From Public Assistance to Civil Rights Chapter 7: Helping Needy Families: An End to Welfare as We Knew It Chapter 8: Financing Healthcare: Can All Americans Be Insured? Chapter 9: Preventing Poverty: Education and Employment policy Chapter 10: Providing Social Services: Help for Children, Older Americans, and Individuals with Mental and Substance Use Disorders Chapter 11: The Challenges of a Diverse Society: Gender and Sexual Orientation Chapter 12: The Challenges of a Diverse Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Conclusion: Politics, Rationalism, and the future of Social Welfare Policy   COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Introduction: Politics, Rationalism, and Social Welfare Policy Social Welfare Policy: A Political Approach Conclusion   Chapter 1: Politics and the Policymaking Process The Policymaking Process Financing the Welfare State Summary   Chapter 2: Analyzing, Implementing, and Evaluating Social Welfare Policy The Politics of Policy Analysis The Politics of Policy Implementation Evaluating Social Policy Summary Chapter 3: Politics and the History of Social Welfare Policy The Early History of Social Welfare Policy in America The Great Depression and FDR’s New Deal LBJ and the War on Poverty More Expansion of Social Welfare The Reagan and Bush Years The Presidential Years of Bill Clinton The George W. Bush Presidency Barack Obama’s Presidency: Year One Summary Chapter 4: Ending Poverty: Is It An Issue Anymore? What Is Poverty? Why Are the Poor, Poor? The Politics of Hunger The Politics of Affordable Housing Poor and Homeless: Not Invisible Any More A Fundamental Shift Summary   Chapter 5: Preventing Poverty: Social Insurance and Personal Responsibility Preventing Poverty through Compulsory Savings Social Security: The World’s Largest Social Welfare Program Social Security’s Goals: Adequacy, Equity, and Efficiency Saving Social Security Public Policy and Private Pensions Unemployment Insurance Workers’ Compensation Summary Chapter 6: Disability Policy: From Public Assistance to Civil Rights A Fair Definition, A Fair Policy Public Assistance for the “Deserving Poor” Veterans Administration Disability System Disability and Work The Era of Civil Rights for Individuals with Disabilities Disability Policy for Children Disability Policy for the Future Summary Chapter 7: Helping Needy Families: An End to Welfare as We Knew It From Mothers’ Aid to AFDC Making Parents Pay: A History of Child Support Enforcement Benefits of Child Support Child Support Enforcement Agency’s Services Effectiveness of Child Support Enforcement State Compliance and CSE Privatization The Reincarnations of Welfare and Work Why the Fuss about Welfare? Has Welfare as We Knew It Ended? Summary   Chapter 8: Financing Healthcare: Can All Americans Be Insured? Healthcare: Crossroads of Politics and Social Welfare Policy Good Health or Medical Attention? How Americans Pay for Healthcare What Ails Healthcare? Incrementalism and the 2009—2010 Effort for Universal Healthcare Meanwhile, Back at the States Healthcare: More Ethical Dilemmas Summary   Chapter 9: Preventing Poverty: Education and Employment Policy Education for the Few or the Many? Public Education: The Progressive Era to World War II The Post World War II Era: Increased Federal Involvement in Education Was Thirty Years of Education Reform Necessary? Education and the Obama Administration Federal Reluctance in Employment Policy Reluctance Overcome: The New Deal The War on Poverty: The Search for a Cure Minimum Wages and Living Wages Economic Crisis and the Obama Stimulus Plan Summary Chapter 10: Providing Social Services: Help for Children, Older Americans, and Individuals with Mental and Substance Use Disorders Social Services in the United States Child Welfare Policy and Services Social Services for Older Americans Social Services for Individuals with Mental and Substance Use Disorders Summary Chapter 11: The Challenges of a Diverse Society: Gender and Sexual Orientation The Feminization of Poverty The Wage Gap and Comparable Worth Women in Political Office Resuscitating the Equal Rights Amendment Family Care No Middle Ground on Abortion Rights Confronting Violence against Women A New Era for Gay Rights Summary   Chapter 12: The Challenges of a Diverse Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Racial Equality: How Far Have We Come? The Civil Rights Acts School Desegregation Housing and Racial Discrimination Affirmative Action Voting Rights Troubles in Indian Country Racial and Ethnic Targeting Immigration and Social Welfare Summary Conclusion: Politics, Rationalism, and the Future of Social Welfare Policy


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780205011612
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 252 mm
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Series Title: Connecting Core Competencies
  • Sub Title: Politics and Public Policy
  • Width: 206 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0205011616
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Brief
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 570 gr


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