The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work--And a Blueprint for Change by Gelles, Richard J.

The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work--And a Blueprint for Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611320510)

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The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work--And a Blueprint for Change by Gelles, Richard J.

The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work--And a Blueprint for Change

$51.99
The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work--And a Blueprint for Change by Gelles, Richard J.

The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work--And a Blueprint for Change

$51.99
Format: Paperback
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"I am from the government and I am here to help you" is one of the three biggest lies, or so the old joke goes. Richard J. Gelles, dean of social policy at University of Pennsylvania, explains why government programs designed to cure social ills don't work in sector after sector...and never could work. He demonstrates how each creates its own bureaucracy to monitor participation in the program, an entrenched administrative apparatus whose needs supersede those for whom the program was designed. Against this, he contrasts universal programs such as the GI Bill, Social Security, and Medicare, the most successful, sustained government programs ever established. Gelles's provocative, controversial proposal for a universal entitlement to replace a raft of lumbering social programs should be read by all in social services, policy studies, and government.

Author: Richard J. Gelles
ISBN-10: 1611320518
ISBN-13: 9781611320510
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2011
Pages: 151
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

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Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 86
By Richard J. Gelles
By Richard J. Gelles
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Richard J. Gelles is Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also holds The Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence. He is the Director for the Center for Research on Youth & Social Policy and Co-Director of the Field Center for Children's Policy Practice & Research. Gelles is an internationally known expert in domestic violence and child welfare and was influential in the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. His first book, The Violent Home (1974), was the first systematic investigation to provide empirical data on domestic violence. More recent books, such as The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives and Intimate Violence in Families (3d ed), have also made a significant impact in the study of child welfare and family violence. He is the author of 24 books and more than 100 articles, chapters and papers.

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