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.

The Politics of Policy Change compares and contrasts recent developments in three major federal policy areas in the United States: welfare, Medicare, and Social Security.

With chapters contributed by the foremost social work scholars, this edited text highlights key social policy issues from both a domestic and international perspective.

The authors go beyond U.S. borders to examine U.S. government policies-including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice-within a global context.

This book attributes American poverty to consequences 19th Century social welfare policies within an economy stretching to meet its 21st Century economic potential, arguing that American poverty persists as economic and political structures have moved into the world of fiscal planning but social welfare remains in its Depression-era structure.