Policy Analysis for Social Workers (Social Work in the New Century)

About this book

Policy Analysis for Social Workers offers a comprehensive step-by-step guide to understanding the process of policy development and analysis for effective advocacy. This user-friendly model helps students get excited about understanding policy as a product a process and as performancea unique "3-P" approach to policy analysis as competing texts often just focus on one of these areas. Author Richard K Caputo efficiently teaches the purpose of policy and its relation to social work values discusses the field of policy studies and the various kinds of analysis and highlights the necessary criteria (effectiveness efficiency equity political feasibility social acceptability administrative and technical feasibility) for evaluating public policy.