Workfare : Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad


Maeve. Quaid
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , 2000.
Omfang
1 online resource (257 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1. Introduction""; ""The Nature of a Good Idea � Policy Fads and Fashions""; ""Workfare: The Perfect Good Idea""; ""Theoretical Framework: Why It Is Hard to Study a Good Idea""; ""Organization of the Book""; ""2. What Is Workfare? Something, Nothing, or Anything and Everything?""; ""Some Definitional Problems""; ""Workfare as Something""; ""Workfare as Nothing""; ""Workfare as Anything and Everything""; ""3. Policy Chic: Putting the Poor to Work""; ""The Nature and Development of Workfare""; ""Workfare in the United States""; ""Workfare in Canada"". - ""4. California's Gain Program � The Operation Was a Success but the Patient Died""""Summary""; ""California's Good Idea: Background and Context of the Reform""; ""How Was the Program Designed?""; ""Administrative Challenges: Making Workfare Work""; ""Did Welfare Recipients Participate?""; ""The Official Record: What Do the Evaluators Say?""; ""Did the Public Play a Role?""; ""What Happened to the Good Idea?""; ""5. Wisconsin � Tommy Thompson and His Welfare Miracle""; ""Summary""; ""Wisconsin's Good Idea: Background and Context of the Reform""; ""How Was the Program Designed?"". - ""Administrative Challenges: Making Workfare Work""""Did Welfare Recipients Participate?""; ""The Official Record: What Do the Evaluators Say?""; ""Did the Public Play a Role?""; ""What Happened to the Good Idea?""; ""6. New York City's Work Experience Program � 'Same Shit, Different Day'""; ""Summary""; ""New York City's Good Idea: Background and Context of the Reform""; ""How Was the Program Designed?""; ""Administrative Challenges: Making Workfare Work""; ""Did Welfare Recipients Participate?""; ""The Official Record: What Do the Evaluators Say?""; ""Did the Public Play a Role?"". - ""Did the Public Play a Role?"". - ""How Was the Program Designed?""""Administrative Challenges: Making Workfare Work""; ""Did Welfare Recipients Participate?""; ""The Official Record: What Do the Evaluators Say?""; ""Did the Public Play a Role?""; ""What Happened to the Good Idea?""; ""9. The Ontario Works Program � Mutiny on the Bounty""; ""Summary""; ""Ontario's Good Idea: Background and Context of the Reform""; ""How Was the Program Designed?""; ""Administrative Challenges: Making Workfare Work""; ""Did Welfare Recipients Participate?""; ""The Official Record: What Do the Evaluators Say?"". - ""What Happened to the Good Idea?""""7. 'Learnfare' in New Brunswick � Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out""; ""Summary""; ""New Brunswick's Good Idea: Background and Context of the Reform""; ""How Was the Program Designed?""; ""Administrative Challenges: Making Workfare Work""; ""Did Welfare Recipients Participate?""; ""The Official Record: What Do the Evaluators Say?""; ""Did the Public Play a Role?""; ""What Happened to the Good Idea?""; ""8. Alberta's Mandatory 'Voluntary Opportunities'""; ""Summary""; ""Alberta's Good Idea: Background and Context of the Reform""
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ISBN
0802042619. - 0802081010

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