SW 307 Chapter 4: Analyzing and Researching Social Welfare Policies
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Chapter 4: analyzing and researching social welfare policies. For workers to adequately explain the needs of clients, it becomes a professional requirement for workers to be capable of conducting some level of social welfare policy analysis. Must follow the policy process and access resources to help explain the background/content of policies. Public policy: the general term for decisions, laws, and regulations put forth by governing bodies. A number of theories attempt to explain how social problems receive recognition and become the objects of debate and legislation. Examples: u. s. defense department, the social security act . Window of opportunity: the timing of a public decision is the opening of a policy window of opportunity (woo: policies are debated long before becoming law. Some are acceptable now that weren"t acceptable in the past, or vice versa: political and social events or a change in personnel may open a woo.
