Targeting in Social Programs : Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples /

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"Provides a framework for analyzing the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discusses the safeguards that any classification process must provide. Examines public schools, public housing, and medical care and proposes policy changes that could reduce the problems these t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schuck, Peter H. (Author), Zeckhauser, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social policy.
Public welfare administration.
Human services > Government policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Services sociaux > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Aide sociale > Administration > États-Unis.
Human services > Government policy > United States.
Public welfare administration > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique sociale > 1993-
United States > Social policy > 1993-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Provides a framework for analyzing the challenges involved in defining bad bets and bad apples and discusses the safeguards that any classification process must provide. Examines public schools, public housing, and medical care and proposes policy changes that could reduce the problems these two groups pose in social welfare programs"--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (175 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780815778790

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