Policy Creation and Evaluation 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 by creating the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and closing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.Examining the law through three decision-making models assists readers in understanding TANF's historical antecedents, its political and power implications, and the way in which it meets social and economic goals. Individual chapters demonstrate how programs such as TANF are evaluated and the methods that can be used, such as primarily qualitative, primarily quantitative, and mixed methods evaluation techniques. Illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of each approach for evaluation, Hoefer makes use of the numerous studies undertaken in the thirteen years since welfare reform and its 2006 reauthorization. Part history text, readers will also learn about the details of the TANF legislation creation and evaluation, but will finish with a greater understanding of the policy creation and evaluation processes.This pocket guide will be useful to researchers and students of advanced social policy who seek to understand the two stages of policy-making, to develop policy, or to describe the impact of social policy on social problems.-
Using Complexity Theory for Research and Program Evaluation
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Needs Assessment
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Narrative Inquiry
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Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
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Multilevel Thinking
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Multiple Regression with Discrete Dependent Variables
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Clinical Data-Mining
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Research with Diverse Groups
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Strategies to Approximate Random Sampling and Assignment
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Grounded Theory
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Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation
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Practice Research in the Human Services
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Developing Cross Cultural Measurement
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Conducting Substance Use Research
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Key Concepts in Measurement
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A Social Justice Approach to Survey Design and Analysis
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Data Analysis with Small Samples and Non-Normal Data
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Randomized Controlled Trials
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Qualitative Methods for Practice Research
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Preparing Research Articles
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Participatory Action Research
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Determining Sample Size
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Conducting Research in Juvenile and Criminal Justice Settings
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Systematic Synthesis of Qualitative Research
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Structural Equation Modeling
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Content Analysis
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Finding and Evaluating Evidence
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Intervention Research
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Secondary Data Analysis
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Mixed Methods Research
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Analysis of Multiple Dependent Variables
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Quasi-Experimental Research Designs
Richard Hoefer, PhD, is Roy E. Dulak Professor for Community Research at the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199735198 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199735190 |
| Title | Policy Creation and Evaluation |
| Author | Richard Hoefer |
| Series | Pocket Guides To Social Work Research Methods |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2011-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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