Workfare : why good social policy ideas go bad / Maeve Quaid.
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TextPublisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type: - text
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- HV105 .Q353 2002
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Quaid delves into the definition and history of workfare, and then continues with a critical and comparative analysis of workfare programs in six jurisdictions: California, Wisconsin, New York, Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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CHOICE Review
Quaid (administrative studies, Trent Univ.) has produced an exploratory work that examines a policy issue, workfare, within a bicultural context. In a comparative analysis of programs in three US (California, Wisconsin, New York) and three Canadian (Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick) settings, the ideal is defined in differing manners. Quaid develops an analytic model to illustrate the factors that contribute to the failure of the policy. The characteristics of a good idea are developed and then examined within the case examples. The issues involved in diffusion are portrayed from the case examples. The hazards that contribute to the policy implementation are described and presented in a conceptual model. The factors that prohibit rational comprehensive planning are applied to the case situations in each of the six settings. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. D. S. Pierson Idaho State UniversityThere are no comments on this title.