Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy

Description

Chapter 1: The Field of Social Welfare Policy

Chapter 2: The Modern Welfare State

Chapter 3: A Framework for Social Welfare Policy Analysis

Chapter 4: The Basis of Social Allocations

Chapter 5: The Nature of Social Provisions

Chapter 6: The Design of the Delivery System

Chapter 7: The Mode of Finance: Sources of Funds

Chapter 8: The Mode of Finance: Systems of  Transfer

Chapter 9: Policy Dimensions: International Trends in the 21^st Century

Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Center for Child and Youth Policy.  His publications include thirty books and over 100 articles. Several of his books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Italian. His work, Capitalism and the Welfare State (Yale University Press) was a New York Times notable book. His most recent book, A Mother’s Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life, was a Society notable book and an Atlantic Monthly selection. Gilbert served as a Senior Research Fellow for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva. He was twice awarded Fulbright Fellowship to study European Social Policy as a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and at the University of Stockholm.  He has also served as a Visiting Scholar at the International Social Security Association in Geneva.

Paul Terrell is a Lecturer at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley where he also served as the Coordinator of Academic Programs.  He has recently taught at the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Beijing Normal University, Beijing. Terrell served as Research Co-Director, Proposition 13 Monitoring Project, National Association of Social Workers and was Associate Director, Regional Research Institute in Social Welfare, University of Southern California. He has coauthored The Social Impact of Revenue Sharing: Planning, Participation, and The Purchase of Service (Praeger Publishers) and Social Services Contracting in the Bay Area (Institute of Governmental Studies: U.C., Berkeley). His articles include studies of advocacy in social work, financing social services and privatization.

• Part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series, this text integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice tests to assess student understanding and development of competency. (ex. p. 57)
• All data and policy developments have been updated with the most current information available.
• New topics include:
  • Discussion of the new Supplemental Poverty measure
  • Analysis of the increasing use of conditionality in eligibility designs
  • Analysis of the implications of alternative methods to calculate social spending for understanding how welfare states function
  • Analysis of a new stage of welfare state development following the economic crisis of 2008
  • TANF’s response to the economic recession
  • The convergence of modern welfare states

• Part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series, this text integrates the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice tests to assess student understanding and development of competency. (ex. p. 57)
• Chapters include capsules that offer current experiential examples of  key points in the text (ex. p. 134)
• Tables and figures show trends in social welfare developments. (ex. p. 80)
• Current issues are highlighted through:
  • Data and charts on social spending, philanthropic contributions, poverty rates and social program benefits
  • Discussion of emerging issues in the final section of each chapter
  • Analysis of the changing structure of the U.S. welfare state and how it compares with other nations
  • Analysis of the alternative ways to define poverty and their implications
  • Examining the impact of the recent economic downturn on welfare state developments
  • The text applies the 2008 CSWE EPAS, with critical thinking questions and practice tests to advance student competency.

A conceptual framework for analyzing social welfare policy

Dimensions of Social Welfare Policy provides a comprehensive and widely-used framework for analyzing social welfare policies.  The text encourages readers to develop their own thoughts on social welfare policy and to explore policy alternatives. Theoretical points are illustrated with examples from a cross-section of program areas including income maintenance, child welfare, model cities, day care, community action, and mental health. The text familiarizes students with the content of major social welfare programs such as TANF, OASDHI, SSI, and Title XX.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

• Understand current policy issues
• Reflect on where they stand in regard to controversial policy issues
• Understand major social welfare programs
• Better understand CSWE’s core competencies and practice behaviors