Test Bank For American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach, with Enhanced Pearson eText — Package (8th Edition) (What’s New in Social Work) 8th Edition

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0134303199
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0134303192
• Author: Howard Karger

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.

Table contents:

PART I. AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY

1. Social Policy and the American Welfare State
2. A Brief History of the American Social Welfare State
3. Social Welfare Policy Research
4. Discrimination 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. The American Welfare State in International Perspective

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