American Social Welfare Policy: A Pluralist Approach (4th Edition)

This best-selling book provides a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining such cutting-edge issues as technology and social welfare policy and the relationship between tax policy and social welfare policy. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the impact of dramatic changes in social welfare policy. The book examines how the major sectors of social welfare policy - the voluntary, governmental, corporate, and private sectors - operate and co-exist (the "pluralist approach"). It also offers a clear, user-friendly framework for policy analysis. The new edition includes coverage of the impact of welfare reform legislation. For social workers, or anyone interested in social welfare policy.