Overview
What are the 3 types of policy analyis?
Value Analytic
Value Committed
Value Critical
The 6 elements of policy analysis are necessary to
a policy / program.
implement
True or False? Criteria specific to benefits & services include stignmatization; cost effectivenes, trade-offs, and measureability?
False
True or False? Supervision of deviance is a subtype under forms of benefits and services.
True
What is the preferred method of policy analysis?
Value commitments
Description is the only used for the most important step (1st step) in analyzing program and policy features
tool
How many questions are needed to ask in order to reach a decision?
6
Criteria for evaluation fo eligibiilty rules include implications
for adequacy, equity, and efficiency
What are the 4 subtypes of goals & objectives ?
Principles/purpose
long term / short term
Intermediate / ultimate
Manifest/latent
What does a mission statement give to a policy analyst?
descriptive information on the purpose of the policy or program.
"Coming to judgement" creates a .
Value-critical policy analysis
What are the basic policy elements?
Goals & Objectives
Forms of benefits & Services
Eligibility rules
Administrations & service delivery
financing
Interactions
Some criteria specific to benefits and services include (a) ;(b) ; (c) among others
stigmatization
target efficiency
cost effectiveness
SSI looks at how a child's affects everyday life.
disability
What guides the analyst in determing whether benefits and services are effectively reaching clients?
Administration and service delivery evaluation.
Value committed starts with how things ought to be and and why (implications for actions).
why they aren't
In the real world social welfare policy is almost always about and even while it is an attempt to correct injustice
selection ; rationing
What are the evaluation criteria specific to administratin /service delivery (a) - (e)? Among others
(a) has an articulate program /policy design
(b) integration/continuity
(c) accessibility
(d) accountability
(e) client / consumer empowerment
Who determines whether a physical / mental problems keeps an individual from working?
Qualified professionals
True or False? A practitioner should never ask is there any data or rational basis for believing that causal factors or processes leading to a social issue can actually be changed by providing a benefit.
False
What are the 2 perspectives that shape policies and programs?
1. legislators who pass the enabling laws.
2. middle managers and practitioners who implement the program derived and funded out of the law.
Why is social policy concerned with the 6 elements?
Because fundamentally they are the basis on which social policies and programs ration and distribute benefits, select beneficiaries. and attempt to ensure that money goods, and services are used efficiently.
Evaluation criteria specific to financing include:
(a) continuity in funding and (b) Stability in broad economic change / and .
inflation / depression and demographic change
Subtypes are not mutually exclusive, a program or policy may use more than one
and or .
entitlement rule or financing method
Evaluation criteria the analyst should use for deciding merit of the policy elements in a program, service, or system will always include:
1. fit of policy element to the social concern
2. consequences with regard to adequacy, equity, and efficiency for clients and program participants;
3. criteria that are uniquely useful for a single policy element but not others