Table of Contents

• PART I. AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
• 1. Social Policy and the American Welfare State
• 2. A Brief History of the American Social Welfare State
• 3. Social Welfare Policy Research
• 4. Discrimination in American Society
• 5. Poverty in America 
• PART II. THE VOLUNTARY AND FOR-PROFIT SECTORS
• 6. The Voluntary Sector Today
• 7. Privatization and Human Service Corporations 
• PART III. THE GOVERNMENT SECTOR
• 8. The Making of Governmental Policy
• 9. Tax Policy and Income Distribution
• 10. Social Insurance Programs
• 11. Public Assistance Programs
• 12. The American Health Care System
• 13. Mental Health and Substance Abuse Policy
• 14. Criminal Justice
• 15. Child Welfare Policy
• 16. Housing Policies
• 17. The Politics of Food Policy and Rural Life
• PART IV. THE AMERICAN WELFARE STATE IN PERSPECTIVE
• 18. The American Welfare State in International Perspective

About the Author

Howard Karger is professor, Hawai’i Pacific University, School of Social Work.

David Stoesz is professor, Flinders University/Carnegie Mellon University—Australia.

Howard and David have been friends and colleagues for more than three decades. In addition to eight editions of American Social Welfare Policy, they have coauthored three other books.