Richard Hoefer

Policy Creation and Evaluation

Understanding Welfare Reform in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This pocket guide will be useful to researchers as well as students in advanced social policy courses seeking to understand the two stages of policy-making, to develop policy, to be able to describe the impact of social policy on social problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780199735198
• ISBN-10: 0199735190
• Artikelnr.: 47866826

Autorenporträt

Richard Hoefer, PhD, is Roy E. Dulak Professor for Community Research at the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Social Policy Creation and Evaluation
Part I. Social Policy Creation
2. Using the Historical Approach
3. Using the Politics and Power Approach
4. Using the "Rational Actor" Approach
Summary of the Three Models
Part II. Social Policy Evaluation
5. Using Qualitative Methods to Understand What the Policy Did
With Regina Aguirre, PhD
6. Using Quantitative Methods to Understand What the Policy Did
7. Using Mixed Methods to Understand What the Policy Did
8. Conclusion: Understanding Social Policy Creation and Evaluation
Glossary
References
Index