Research Catalog

Title

Turning promises into performance : the management challenge of implementing workfare / Richard P. Nathan.

Author

Nathan, Richard P.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, ©1993.

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Details

Description

xvi, 161 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Public welfare administration > United States
• Welfare recipients > Employment > United States

Note

• "A Twentieth Century Fund book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Richard L. Leone -- 1. The Shadow Land -- 2. The Origins of "New-Style Workfare" Nixon's Family Assistance Plan. The FAP Debate. Let's Call it Workfare -- 3. Changes Under Reagan. Reagan as Governor. Reagan as President. The 1981 Budget Act. The Family Support Act of 1988 -- 4. Studies of the 1981 Changes. The GAO Studies. Studies by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation -- 5. Deciding What to Do -- The Five State Programs. Massachusetts. California. New Jersey. Michigan. Arkansas -- 6. Program Start-Up. Massachusetts. New Jersey -- 7. Program Operations. The MDRC California Evaluation. Findings from the MDRC-GAIN Implementation Study. The Participation Flow. County Policy Decisions. The Roles of Local Personnel. The Sanctioning Process. Concluding Comment -- 8. Feedback and Program Oversight. Internal Feedback. External Feedback. Formal Evaluations. Concluding Comments -- 9. Implementing the JOBS Program. Looking Ahead -- 10. Why Is Welfare So Hard to Reform?
• Back to Basics -- 11. Changing the Way We Work in the Shadow Land. Modifying the Civic Culture. Managing Programs Such as New-Style Workfare. The Critical Role of Agency Heads. Public Service Academies -- 12. Ten Lessons -- 13. Advice to a New Commissioner.

ISBN

• 0231079621
• 9780231079624
• 023107963X
• 9780231079631

LCCN

92042821

OCLC

• ocm27035349
• 27035349
• SCSB-1988044

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library