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

O'Connor, Mary Katherine; Netting, F. Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047045203X ISBN 13: 9780470452035

Verlag: Wiley, 2010

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Book by OConnor Mary Katherine Netting F Ellen

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Reseña del editor

This unique volume outlines the different frameworks of policy analysis and explains how readers can use research and critical thinking skills to understand the different models from their formation and development to implementation. Approaching the topic from an analytical and research-based perspective, the authors help readers make better, informed choices for successfully dealing with the complexities of social policy. Social workers, public administrators, nonprofit managers and upper level students of these fields will find the tools necessary for understanding how social policies are analyzed, conceived, and ultimately applied.

Biografía del autor

Mary Katherine O'Connor, MSW, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University where she has taught in the MSW and PhD programs for over twenty years. She has authored or coauthored numerous books, chapters, and journal articles in the areas of public child welfare practice, services to street children, and qualitative research method development. F. Ellen Netting, MSSW, PhD, is a Professor of Social Work and Samuel S. Wurtzel Chair at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches in the BSW, MSW, and PhD programs. She has authored or coauthored numerous books, chapters, and journal articles in the areas of health and human service delivery issues for frail elders, as well as nonprofit management concerns.

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• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 047045203X
• ISBN 13: 9780470452035
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336