The handbook of social policy / edited by James Midgley, Martin B. Tracy, Michelle Livermore.
Contributors: Midgley, James.; Tracy, Martin.; Livermore, Michelle.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Social service -- United States; Public welfare -- United States; United States -- Social policy
Other titles: Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The definition of social policy / James Midgley; title: An overview of American social policy / Diana M. Dinitto; title: Economic dimensions of social policy / Jane Waldfogel; title: Policy analysis / Bruce Jansson; title: Policy practice / Dean Pierce; title: The impact of social policy / Pranab Chatterjee, John Sinclair; title: Social policy from colonial times to the Civil War / Phyllis J. Day; title: Social policy and the Progressive Era / John M. Herrick; title: Social policy of the New Deal / Leslie Leighninger, Robert Leighninger; title: Social policy and the Great Society / Michael Reisch; title: Social policy : Reagan and beyond / David Stoesz; title: Child and family welfare policies and services : current issues and historical antecedents / Katherine Briar-Lawson, Jeanette Drews; title: Income maintenance and support : the changing face of welfare / Jill Duerr Berrick; title: Social Security / Martha N. Ozawa; title: Social policy and the elderly / Fernando M. Torres-Gil, Valentine Villa; title: Social policy and health care / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld; title: Housing policy / Kevin Fox Gotham, James D. Wright; title: Social policies and mental health / James W. Callicutt; title: Social policies for people with disabilities / Mary F. Hayden; title: Social policy and the correctional system / Margaret Severson; title: Employment policy and social welfare / Michelle Livermore; title: Education and social welfare policy / Martin B. Tracy, Patsy Dills Tracy; title: Urban development policy / Robert J. Waste; title: The institutional approach to social policy / James Midgley; title: Conservative approaches to social policy / Leon Ginsberg; title: Critical social policy / Demetrius S. Iatridis; title: Welfare pluralism and social policy / Neil Gilbert; title: Feminist approaches to social policy / Cheryl Hyde; title: The social development perspective in social policy / James Midgley, Michael Sherraden; title: Race, politics, and social policy / Lori Parham, Jill Quadagno; title: Social policy and the physical environment / Marie D. Hoff, John G. McNutt; title: International aspects of social policy / Alfred J. Kahn, Sheila B. Kamerman; title: The future of social policy / James Midgley, Martin B. Tracy, Michelle Livermore.