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Social Policy and Social Justice </em></strong>provides today's students and tomorrow's practitioners with a comprehensive overview of U.S. social policy and the policymaking process. Author and editor Michael Reisch brings together experts in the field to help students understand these policies and prepare them for the emerging realities that will shape practice in the 21st century. This text explores the critical contextual components of social policy—including history, ideology, political-economy, and culture—and demonstrates major substantive areas of policy such as income maintenance and health/mental health.
Policy Practice
Section II contains five chapters that focus on the process of social policy development and the skills required to effect changes in the conceptualization, formulation, and implementation of social policy.
Chapter 6, by Richard K. Caputo, is organized around three major aspects of social policy analysis: policy as product, process, and performance. Its focus is on major concepts and methodological approaches, and tools and techniques germane to each of these three distinct aspects of policy analysis. The chapter is divided into four subsections: The first subsection, “Policy Studies,” provides background on the field of policy studies, the relationship between politics and policy, and the role of social science in policy analysis. It focuses on the issues of value neutrality and value relevance ...
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