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  title info:
    title: Evaluating the welfare state
    sub title: social and political perspectives
  name:
    name part: Spiro, Shimon E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Yuchtman-Yaar, Ephraim
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  name:
    name part: Merkaz le-fituaḥ ʻal-shem P. Sapir
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Congress
  genre: proceedings (reports)
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings.
  genre: Actes de congrès.
  genre: Aufsatzsammlung.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1983
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 424 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Evaluating the Welfare State: Social and Political Perspectives together with its companion Social Policy Evaluation: An Economic Perspective is the outgrowth of an international and interdisciplinary conference on policy evaluation held at Tel Aviv University in December 1980. The conference brought together scholars from the fields of economics, sociology, political science, social work, and administration. The papers presented at this conference approached the welfare state and social policy evaluation from a number of different theoretical and methodological perspectives. A selection of th.
  table of contents: Front Cover; Evaluating the Welfare State: Social and Political Perspectives; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Introduction; Part I: The Welfare State: Causes and Consequences; Chapter 1. The Political Consequences of the Welfare State; What Is ""The Welfare State""?; Identifying the Welfare State's Political Consequences; Hopes and Fears; The Welfare State's Actual Consequences; An Inference and a Noninference; References; Chapter 2. Class Politics and the Western Welfare State; Prologue: Socialism and the Welfare State; Theoretical Perspectives on the Welfare State.
  table of contents: Class Interests and the Welfare StateThe Pro-Social-Democratic Consensus and Its Shortcomings; Alternatives to the Social Democratic Interpretation; Epilogue: Socialism and the Welfare State; References; Chapter 3. Political Legitimacy and Consensus: Missing Variables in the Assessment of Social Policy; Types of Political Economy among Market-Oriented Rich Democracies: Democratic Corporatism or the Mass Society; Corporatist Democracies Can Tax, Spend, and yet Stay Cool; Corporatism, Consensus, and the Politics of Evaluation Research; Conclusion; References.
  table of contents: Chapter 4. Social Policy Evaluation and the Psychology of StagnationThe Rising Expectations Hypothesis; Economic Sentiment and Changes in the National Economy; The Maldistribution Hypothesis; The Malallocation Hypothesis; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5. Expectancies, Entitlements, and Subjective Welfare; Introduction; Conceptual Considerations; Expectancies and Entitlements with Respect to Pay; Measures; Empirical Model; Results; Summary and Some Implications; References; Part II: Boundaries of the Welfare State and the Foci of Policy Evaluation.
  table of contents: Chapter 6. The Growing Complexity of Economic Claims in Welfare SocietiesThe Welfare Economy; Employer-Provided Welfare Benefits; The Redefinition of the Territory of Social Policy; The Development of Employee Benefits and Government Transfers in the United States since 1929; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7. Systematic Confusions in the Evaluation of Implementing Decisions; Publicized Governmental Actions with Little Effect on Value Allocations; Implementation That Maintains Established Inequalities; The Free Market in Creating Regulatory Agencies; The Symbolic Uses of Formal Goals.
  table of contents: Issue Networks as Masked RegulatorsGovernmental Organizations as Political Reinforcements; References; Chapter 8. The Welfare State: Issues of Rationing and Allocation of Resources; References; Chapter 9. Charting the Iceberg: Visible and Invisible Aspects of Government; Introduction; The Growth of the Public Sector; Indirect Spending by the Government; The Invisible Government; The Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Forms of Government Control; Conclusion; References; Part III: Evaluation Research: Concepts and Issues; Chapter 10. The Scope of Evaluation Activities in the United States.
  note: edited by Shimon E. Spiro, Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar.
  note: "Outgrowth of an international and interdisciplinary conference on policy evaluation held at Tel Aviv University in December 1980, under the auspices of the Pinhas Sapir Center for Development"--Preface.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Welfare state
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: État providence
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: Politique sociale
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: Social Services & Welfare
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Human Services
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Welfare state
  subject:
    topic: Sozialpolitik
  subject:
    topic: Wohlfahrtsstaat
  subject:
    topic: Verzorgingsstaat
  subject:
    topic: Sociale politiek
  classification: JC479
  classification: 361.6/5
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  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 140813
    record change date: 20260326205922.1
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng