1st Edition

Social Service Budgets and Social Policy British and American Experience

By H. Glennerster Copyright 1975
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface 1. Social Administration and Resource Allocation 2. Theories and Practice 3. The Economic Context 4. The Programme Context 5. The Political Context 6. Forward Planning – US Style 7. Forward Planning – UK Style 8. Output Budgets Out? 9. Evaluation – US Style 10. Evaluation – UK Style 11. Retrospect Bibliography Index

Biography

H. Glennerster