Policy, Policy Practice, & Analysis
True or false: only government entities can create policies.
False! Policies can be created and implemented at any level of authority, whether or not government is involved.
This political position believes that the government should use tax money to fund social welfare programs.
What is liberal?
What is equity?
What is the English Poor Law of 1601?
This term refers to a type of policy that is enforced through the legal system.
What is a law?
This type of policy analysis examines the balance between the resources used to implement a policy or program and the outcomes it achieved.
What is a cost-benefit (or cost-effectiveness) analysis?
This political position is traditionally associated with laissez-faire economics and emphasizes traditional social values.
This term refers to social welfare assistance given within an institutional setting.
What is indoor relief?
True or false: The settlement houses provided shelter to new immigrants in American cities.
False! Only settlement house workers lived in the settlement houses, not people receiving services.
These are the three categories of dependents named in the English Poor Law of 1601.
What are people with disabilities, children, and able-bodied beggars?
This type of policy analysis is used to identify a community or agency's needs and make recommendations for policies and services to fill those gaps.
What is a needs assessment?
This political position believes that state governments should have control over many policies in their own states, that the federal government should be limited in size, and that public schools should be locally controlled.
What is classical conservatism?
Under this approach to social welfare, the government has a limited role to provide social welfare assistance, and people should only access it after private sources of assistance did not solve the problem.
What is a residual approach to social welfare?
This volunteer would visit the home of a poor person/family with the dual purpose of friendship and also diagnosing the reason why they are poor.
What is a friendly visitor?
This term refers to a person who tries to persuade a legislator to support or oppose a specific policy, often on behalf of a company or industry.
What is a lobbyist?
This type of policy analysis examines the ways in which privilege and oppression can cause a policy to have different effects for different populations.
What is Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis?
This political position believes that income inequality is actually beneficial because it meets the needs of employers and gives workers motivation and ambition to advance.
What is neoconservative?
PACs have become important players in the world of campaign finance. What does PAC stand for?
What is Political Action Committee?
This post-Civil War program, meant to assist people who were formerly enslaved, demonstrated that the United States could implement a comprehensive social welfare program if it was prioritized.
What is The Freedman's Bureau?
This government body does not develop or implement policies, but decides if they align with the Constitution.
What is the Supreme Court?
According to Barusch, these are the three main elements of effective policy practice for social workers.
What are policy analysis, advocacy, and empowerment?
This political position defines social justice as "from each according to their choice; to each according to their product."
What is libertarian?
This term refers to the idea that the person in a community receiving the maximum possible amount of social welfare assistance should have a lower standard of living than the community's poorest worker.
What is less eligibility?
The community of Speenhamland in England tried out a new system of social welfare that was criticized by classical economists. What did Speenhamland try?
What is a guaranteed income for households earning below a certain threshold?
This ruling established that corporations have the same right to free speech as individuals, and therefore have the right to make unlimited donations in political campaigns as an exercise of their free speech.
What is Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission?