American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach

by Howard Jacob Karger

For courses in Social Welfare Policy.



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Comprehensive, current coverage of the history, issues, and forces that shape American social welfare policy.



American Social Welfare Policy, Eighth Edition cultivates an understanding of both national and international social welfare policy. Using a policy analysis framework, the authors give students the background needed to grasp the social, political, and economic forces that shape social welfare policy, analyze the major programs that make up the U.S. welfare state, and discuss basic social welfare concepts. Updated throughout, the Eighth Edition examines the dramatic domestic and international events occurring since the previous edition that have impacted social welfare policy worldwide.



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Genres: Social Work, Textbooks, School, Nonfiction, Grad School

456 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1993

Reviews

[Kelly Reinhart · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book did a good job of explaining the history of policies in the United States, including a wide variety of topics/social issues. It also did a good job of explaining how to analyse policies. Overall, decent book for understanding policy and for a course text.

[Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clearly, this book is biased towards the liberal/left perspective, but it does give a great summary of Social Welfare policy in the U.S. and is one textbook that I think all U.S.-based social workers should read. I also think all social workers should be active policy advocates, and should therefore be informed about the history and current state of social welfare policies and practices. That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it.

[Hope McCormick · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of tone and opinion, but still very informative.

[Zoe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Onerous presentation of fascinating material.