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 performancea 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.
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Weight: 640g
Dimensions: 187 x 231mm
Publication Date: 25 Nov 2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781452203270
About Richard K. Caputo
Richard K. Caputo is professor of social policy and research at Yeshiva Universitys 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 Universitys Wurzweiler School of Social Work.