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Policy analysis for social workers /

A step by step guide for social work students, Policy Analysis for Social Workers, is a comprehensive guide to help students understand the process of policy development and analysis so they can become effective advocates. This book begins by laying the foundation of the purpose of policy and how it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caputo, Richard K. (Author)
Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, Incorporated, [2014]
Series:Social work in the new century.
Subjects:
Social workers.
Social work administration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • The world of policy analysis
  • Science, values, and policy analysis
  • The purpose of policy analysis
  • Approaches to policy analysis
  • Policy as product
  • Evaluating policy proposals
  • Matching policy proposals to problems
  • Costs, benefits, and risks
  • Applying cost-benefit analysis
  • Policy as process
  • Making policy
  • Implementing policy
  • Policy as performance
  • Approaches to evaluation
  • Evaluation, values, and theory
  • Epilogue: a holistic framework for policy analysis
  • Appendix A: CSWE core competencies
  • Appendix B: Historical overview of policy analysis and policy studies
  • Web sites
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index
  • About the author.