Full Description
Policy Analysis for Social Workers offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to understanding the process of policy development and analysis for effective advocacy. This user-friendly model helps students get excited about understanding policy as a product, a process, and as performance—a unique "3-P" approach to policy analysis as competing texts often just focus on one of these areas. Author Richard K Caputo efficiently teaches the purpose of policy and its relation to social work values, discusses the field of policy studies and the various kinds of analysis, and highlights the necessary criteria (effectiveness, efficiency, equity, political feasibility, social acceptability, administrative, and technical feasibility) for evaluating public policy.
Contents
Introduction
Section I. The World of Policy Analysis
Chapter 1: Science, Values, and Policy Analysis
Chapter 2: The Purpose of Policy Analysis
Chapter 3: Approaches to Policy Analysis
Section II. Policy as Product
Chapter 4: Evaluating Policy Proposals
Chapter 5: Matching Policy Proposals to Problems
Chapter 6: Costs, Benefits, and Risks
Chapter 7: Applying Cost-Benefit Analysis
Section III. Policy as Process
Chapter 8: Making Policy
Chapter 9: Implementing Policy
Section IV. Policy as Performance
Chapter 10: Approaches to Evaluation
Chapter 11: 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
