Targeting in social programs : avoiding bad bets, removing bad apples
Peter H. Schuck
Bok · Engelsk · 2006
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| Utgitt | Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press , 2006
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| Omfang | X, 170 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | "Provides a framework for analyzing the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discusses the safeguards that any classification process must provide. Examines public schools, public housing, and medical care and proposes policy changes that could reduce the problems these two groups pose in social welfare programs"--Provided by publisher.. - Contents: Introduction -- Conceptual foundations of target efficiency -- High stakes, misguided evasions, and bad policies -- Avoiding bad bets -- Removing bad apples -- Predictive accuracy and procedural protection -- Better information, better targeting, and better policies.. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-161) and index.
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| Emner | Human services - Government policy - United States
Public welfare administration - United States United States - Social policy sosialpolitikk sosiale tjenester offentlig velferd historie usa |
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| ISBN | 0815778805. - 9780815778806
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