(eBook) (PDF) American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach, 9th edition

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American Social Welfare Policy uses a policy analysis framework to examine national and international social welfare policy. The pluralist approach gives you the background you need to understand core social welfare concepts, grasp the social, political, and economic forces impacting social welfare policy, and analyze the major programs that make up the U.S. welfare state.The 9th Edition features a new chapter on education and social policy. Extensive updates throughout the text explore the effects of recent domestic and international events on social welfare policy. Every chapter includes new discussions on the impact of the Trump administration on social welfare policy. New coverage explores the impacts of COVID-19, recent developments in Biden’s stimulus packages and environmental policy, the rise in extremist groups, the reinstatement of transgender rights in the military, the Me Too movement, and the increased divisiveness in American society.

Published by Pearson (March 17th 2022) – Copyright © 2023
ISBN-13: 9780137472314
Subject: Social Work & Human Services
Category: Social Welfare Policy

PART I. AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY

1. Social Policy and the American Welfare State
2. The Origins of American Social Welfare
3. Social Welfare Policy Research
4. Discrimination and Stigma in American Society
5. Poverty in America

PART II. THE VOLUNTARY AND FOR-PROFIT SECTORS

6. The Voluntary Sector Today
7. Privatization and Human Service Corporations

PART III. THE GOVERNMENT SECTOR

8. The Making of Governmental Policy
9. Tax Policy and Income Distribution
10. Social Insurance Programs
11. Public Assistance Programs
12. The American Health Care System
13. Mental Health and Substance Abuse Policy
14. Criminal Justice
15. Child Welfare Policy
16. Housing Policies
17. The Politics of Food Policy and Rural Life

PART IV. THE AMERICAN WELFARE STATE IN PERSPECTIVE

18. Social Policy and Education
19. The American Welfare State in International Perspective