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

by Richard Hoefer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199735190
• ISBN13: 9780199735198
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"