Analyzing Social Policy: Multiple Perspectives for Critically Understanding and Evaluating Policy

✍ Scribed by Mary Katherine O'Connor, F. Ellen Netting

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Analyzing Social Policy prepares professionals and students to make better informed decisions related to identifying and understanding the intricacies and potential impact of social policymaking and enactment on their organization as well as their individual responsibilities, goals, and objectives. Authors Mary Katherine O'Connor and F. Ellen Netting thoroughly examine various approaches to the analysis of social policies and how these approaches provide the knowledge, multiple perspectives, and other resources to understand and grasp the nuances of social policy in all its complexity.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 An Overview of Social Policy Analysis
2 Thinking of Policy Analysis as Research
3 Rational Policy Analysis
4 Applications of Rational Policy Analysis
5 Nonrational Policy Analysis
6 Applications in Nonrational Policy Analysis
7 Critical Policy Analysis
8 Applications in Critical Policy Analysis
Epilogue
References
About the Auth
Author Index
Subject Index