Stephen Pimpare

Politics for Social Workers

A Practical Guide to Effecting Change

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really workà â â and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. It offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780231196932
• ISBN-10: 0231196938
• Artikelnr.: 62045920

Autorenporträt

Stephen Pimpare

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The U.S. Constitution Is Undemocratic
2. Our Representative Institutions Are Not Representative
3. We're Terrible at Conducting Elections
4. We Are Exceptional-but Not in a Good Way
5. Most of Us Will Be Poor and on Welfare
6. Everything Is Political
7. Conservatism Is Not Conservative and Some of Us Are More Polarized Than
Others
8. Cruel and Unjust Policies Serve a Purpose for Someone
9. Where You Can Go Depends on Where You've Been
10. Look at What's Not Happening
11. People Learn Lessons About Their Value from Their Interactions with
Government Agencies
12. The People Who Benefit Most from Government Are Most Likely to Claim
They Don't Benefit at All
13. People Like Lice and Cockroaches Better Than Congress
14. The Thing They Say About Making Sausage Is True
15. Presidents Are Weak and Command Too Much of Our Attention
16. It Really Is the Economy, Stupid
17. Judges Are Players, Not Umpires
18. People Aren't Dumb but They Sure Are Ignorant
19. There Is No Public
20. There Is No View from Nowhere
21. You Will Not Change Anyone's Mind
22. Social Work Is Conservative
23. Throw Sand in the Gears of Everything
Conclusion: We Can Do Better. There Are Solutions.
References
Index