Pimpare Politics for Social Workers

A Practical Guide to Effecting Change
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55189-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work—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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pimpare, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Pimpare Stephen:
Stephen Pimpare is a professor in the MPP program and a Faculty Fellow of the Carsey School of Public Policy at University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (New Press, 2004); A People’s History of Poverty in the United States (New Press, 2008, winner of Michael Harrington Book Award at APSA); and Ghettoes, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen (Oxford, 2017). He has previously taught at Columbia School of Social Work, Hunter’s Silberman School of Social Work, and NYU’s Silver School of Social Work, among others.Stephen Pimpare is director of the Public Service and Nonprofit Leadership Program at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (2004); A People’s History of Poverty in America (2008); and Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (2017).