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Policy Analysis for Social Workers
Contributor(s): Caputo, Richard K. (Author)
ISBN: 145220327X     ISBN-13: 9781452203270
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
OUR PRICE:   $122.55  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Work
- Social Science | Human Services
Dewey: 361.3
LCCN: 2013015905
Series: Social Work in the New Century
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.3" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 352 pages
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Caputo, Richard K.: -

Richard K. Caputo is professor of social policy and research at Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work in New York City. He has authored five books, including most recently U.S. Social Welfare Reform: Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present (Springer, 2011), and has edited two books, including most recently Basic Income Guarantee and Politics: International Experiences and Perspectives on the Viability of Income Guarantee (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Family and Economic Issues and is on the editorial board of Families in Society, Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, Marriage & Family Review, Journal of Poverty, and Race, Gender & Class. He has many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including Chapter 6 "Policy Analysis" in Social Policy & Social Justice (Sage, 2014). Between June of 2005 and May of 2013 he served as the director of the PhD program in Social Welfare at Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work.