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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 it relates to social work values. It also discusses the field of policy studies and helps students understand the various kinds of analysis. The next section highlights criteria on evaluating public policy by helping students understand how to define policy limits and uses and how they will most likely be used. It clearly lays out various criteria (effectiveness, efficiency, equity, political feasibility, social acceptability, administrative and technical feasibility) to help students evaluate policy. In addition, the book will cover how to write up a proposal and how to assess the costs and benefits. Finally, the book will use several examples of actual policy to help students apply the concepts in practice.
Evaluating Policy Proposals
Evaluating Policy Proposals
This is the first of four chapters devoted to policy as product. It addresses an elemental task of policy analysis—namely, getting a handle on what the policy states about who gets what and under what circumstances. The chapter identifies and discusses criteria for evaluating policy proposals and asks several basic questions, answers to which provide a descriptive summary of policy products. Upon completion of the chapter, students will have learned that (1) policy analysts need to be alert to which and how criteria for assessing the merits of a policy are used; (2) policy analysts have a responsibility to assist clients sort through the relative weights attributed to evaluative criteria, including effectiveness, efficiency, equity, liberty/freedom, political feasibility, social acceptability, ...
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