Policy Creation and Evaluation: Understanding Welfare Reform in the United State

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This pocket guide will be useful to researchers and students of advanced social policy who seek to understand the two stages of policy-making, to develop policy, or to describe the impact of social policy on social problems.

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Although practitioners do not often identify an explicit focus on social welfare policy, the analysis (what it is) and evaluation (what it does) of policy is basic to social work practice. This unique pocket guide presents a case study on one of the most important domestic policy decisions in the post-WWII era, the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. This law ended welfare as we knew it by creating theTemporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and closing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.Examining the law through three decision-making models assistsreaders in understanding TANF's historical antecedents, its political and power implications, and the way in which it meets social and economic goals. Individual chapters demonstrate how programs such as TANF are evaluated and the methods that can be used, such as primarily qualitative, primarily quantitative, and mixed methods evaluation techniques. Illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of each approach for evaluation, Hoefer makes use of the numerous studies undertaken in the thirteenyears since welfare reform and its 2006 reauthorization. Part history text, readers will also learn about the details of the TANF legislation creation and evaluation, but will finish with a greaterunderstanding of the policy creation and evaluation processes.This pocket guide will be useful to researchers and students of advanced social policy who seek to understand the two stages of policy-making, to develop policy, or to describe the impact of social policy on social problems.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface1. Social Policy Creation and EvaluationPart I. Social Policy Creation2. Using the Historical Approach3. Using the Politics and Power Approach4. Using the "Rational Actor" ApproachSummary of the Three ModelsPart II. Social Policy Evaluation5. Using Qualitative Methods to Understand What the Policy DidWith Regina Aguirre, PhD6. Using Quantitative Methods to Understand What the Policy Did7. Using Mixed Methods to Understand What the Policy Did8. Conclusion: Understanding Social Policy Creation and EvaluationGlossaryReferencesIndex

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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.

Long Description

Although practitioners do not often identify an explicit focus on social welfare policy, the analysis (what it is) and evaluation (what it does) of policy is basic to social work practice. This unique pocket guide presents a case study on one of the most important domestic policy decisions in the post-WWII era, the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. This law ended welfare as we knew it by creating theTemporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and closing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.Examining the law through three decision-making models assists readers in understanding TANF's historical antecedents, its political and power implications, and theway in which it meets social and economic goals. Individual chapters demonstrate how programs such as TANF are evaluated and the methods that can be used, such as primarily qualitative, primarily quantitative, and mixed methods evaluation techniques. Illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of each approach for evaluation, Hoefer makes use of the numerous studies undertaken in the thirteen years since welfare reform and its 2006 reauthorization. Part history text, readers will also learnabout the details of the TANF legislation creation and evaluation, but will finish with a greater understanding of the policy creation and evaluation processes.This pocket guide will be useful to researchers and students of advanced social policy who seek to understand the twostages of policy-making, to develop policy, or to describe the impact of social policy on social problems.

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Conferences: BPD, NASW, CSWE, SSWR, ASPA, APSA, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary ActionSelling point: Uses multiple policy creation models to systematically examine U.S. policy creationSelling point: Closely examines both quantitative and qualitative methods of evaluationSelling point: Explicitly links policy phases of creation and evaluation

Details ISBN0199735190 Author Richard Hoefer Series Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods Year 2011 ISBN-10 0199735190 ISBN-13 9780199735198 Format Paperback Subtitle Understanding Welfare Reform in the United States DEWEY 362.55680973 Short Title POLICY CREATION & EVALUATION Language English Media Book Position Roy E. Dulak Professor for Community Research Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Affiliation Roy E. Dulak Professor for Community Research, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Publication Date 2011-11-17 NZ Release Date 2011-11-17 US Release Date 2011-11-17 UK Release Date 2011-11-17 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2011-11-23 Pages 230 We've got this

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