Social Service Budgets and Social Policy
eBook - ePub

Social Service Budgets and Social Policy

British and American Experience

  1. 268 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Social Service Budgets and Social Policy

British and American Experience

About this book

First published in 1975, Social Service Budgets and Social Policy compares the attempts by British and US federal governments to plan and control social service expenditure. It concentrates on education, health and social security spending and begins by discussing the contrasting theories of how resource allocation does and ought to work. Then, having compared the broad economic, political and policy contexts within which social planners in the two countries have to work, it scrutinises in particular their attempts at forward planning, output budgeting and programme evaluation. It argues for more explicit and informed decisions about priorities, but as part of an open political process. This book will be of interest to students of economics, sociology and social policy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. Preface
  8. Contents
  9. 1 Social Administration and Resource Allocation
  10. 2 Theories and Practice
  11. 3 The Economic Context
  12. 4 The Programme Context
  13. 5 The Political Context
  14. 6 Forward Planning – US Style
  15. 7 Forward Planning – UK Style
  16. 8 Output Budgets Out ?
  17. 9 Evaluation – US Style
  18. 10 Evaluation – UK Style
  19. 11 Retrospect
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index