Policy analysis for social workers - Caputo, Richard K. (Thousand Oaks, California SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014)
Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- The world of policy analysis -- Science, values, and policy analysis -- The purpose of policy analysis -- Approaches to policy analysis -- Policy as product -- Evaluating policy proposals -- Matching policy proposals to problems -- Costs, benefits, and risks -- Applying cost-benefit analysis -- Policy as process -- Making policy -- Implementing policy -- Policy as performance -- Approaches to evaluation -- 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 -- About the author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-293) and index.
Keywords: Social workers; Social work administration