Richard K. Caputo 
Policy Analysis for Social Workers [EPUB ebook] 

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.

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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

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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 Ph D program in Social Welfare at Yeshiva University′s Wurzweiler School of Social Work.