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Title: An Analytical Framework for Policy Practice


1
An Analytical Framework for Policy Practice
  • A Value and Ideological Perspective

Jane Hayes March 9, 2006 Midwest Biennial Social
Work Educators Conference
2
Overview
  • To present social justice as the value foundation
    of policy practice.
  • To define Policy Practice
  • To review frameworks of Policy Analysis as to
    their relevance to social justice and policy
    practice.

3
How do you define Social Justice?
  • Theory of Distribution (Rawls, 1971)
  • A social contract exists between the individual
    and society in a liberal democracy.
  • This social contract establishes the
    interdependency between freedom and equality.
  • The individual in order to choose and exercise
    freedom needs social goods to ensure equal access
    to opportunities.
  • Social work values are consistent with this.

4
Social Work Values
  • Social workers by virtue of their roles and
    commitments are particularly well placed to act
    as the social conscience of liberal democracies
    (Figueira-McDonough, 1993, p. 180).

5
Policy Practice
  • Macro practice is a professionally guided
    intervention intended to bring about change in
    organizations (Netting, Kettner McMurtry,
    1998).
  • Political social work is defined as a macro
    intervention that targets systems and structures
    of power to change policy (Haynes and Mickelson,
    2000).
  • Policy practice are efforts to change policies
    in legislative, agency, and community settings,
    whether by establishing new policies, improving
    existing ones, or defeating the policy
    initiatives of other people (Jansson, 2003, p.
    13).

6
Social Work Policy Practice
  • Efforts to change policies in legislative,
    agency, and community settings, whether by
    establishing new policies, improving existing
    ones, or defeating the policy initiatives of
    other people.
  • Policy Analysis Policy Advocacy
  • Social Justice

7
Policy Frameworks
  • Karger and Stoesz (2002)
  • Dobelstein (2003)
  • Chambers (2000)
  • Jansson (2003)

8
Policy Analysis FrameworkKarger Stoesz
  • Policy Framework
  • Analytical descriptive model
  • Introduces social values, political and economic
    schools of thought.
  • Democratic-Capitalistic Society

History of Policy
Social Problems
Policy Description
Policy Analysis
9
Policy Analysis FrameworkDobelstein
  • Analytical-descriptive model
  • Emphasizes value conflicts that formulate a
    normative definition of the issue
  • Policy the work of policy elites
  • Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3
    Stage 4 Stage 5
  • Normative Policy Public
    Public Policy
  • Issues Processes Policies
    Programs Implement

10
Policy Analysis FrameworkChambers
  • Value critical analysis model
  • Integrates value analysis
  • Allows for open disclosure of the value
    orientation of the analyst and audience.
  • Determines the fit of the value perspective of
    the social problem with the solution.
  • Values adequacy, equity, efficiency.
  • Policy analysis incorporates
  • Goals and objectives
  • Forms of benefits or services delivered
  • Entitlement (eligibility rules)
  • Administrative or organizational structure for
    delivery of services
  • Financing method

11
Policy Practice Framework Jansson
  • Recognizes policy practice as integral to social
    work practice.
  • Incorporates policy analysis and policy advocacy
  • Unifies direct service and policy practice
  • Goal of policy practice is social justice.
  • The individual in order to choose and exercise
  • freedom needs social goods to ensure equal
  • access to opportunities.

12
Policy Practice Framework
13
Policy Practice Tasks and Skills
  • Analytical
  • Interactional
  • Political
  • Value clarifying

14
Policy Practice Skills Competencies
  • Analytical Skills
  • Developing a proposal
  • Using social science research
  • Diagnosing barriers to implementation
  • Interactional skills
  • Coalition building
  • Conflict resolution
  • Task formation and maintenance

15
Policy Practice Skills
  • Value clarifying skills
  • Engaging in ethical reasoning
  • Political Skills
  • Taking a personal position
  • Seeking positions of power
  • Orchestrating pressure on decision makers
  • Empowering other

16
Models
  • Policy advocacy model integrates political
    knowledge and skills throughout the policy
    process and acknowledges social justice as the
    goal of policy practice.
  • Value critical model defines social justice as
    adequacy, equity, and efficiency and acknowledges
    the role of political conflict and power in
    setting the agenda.
  • Pluralistic model provides the knowledge to
    analyze the societal values, political and
    economic ideologies operating within the larger
    social environment.
  • Analytical-descriptive model contributes the
    social science research knowledge and skills,
    fundamental to any policy analysis framework.

17
Modified Policy Advocacy Model
  • Contextual analysis of social values, political
    and economic ideologies (barriers and
    opportunities)
  • Value foundation of the model is social justice
    and humanism.
  • Social justice as adequacy, equity, and
    efficiency

18
Summary
  • Policy advocacy model integrates political
    knowledge and skills throughout the policy
    process acknowledges the goal of policy
    practice as social justice.
  • Integrates interactional knowledge and skills
  • Integrates analytical knowledge and skills

19
Implications
  • Policy advocacy model provides a guide for social
    work policy practice.
  • Provides student the knowledge and skills needed
    for policy practice
  • Advances the values of the profession on a
    societal level
  • Consistent with the Code of Ethics

20
Questions?
  • How do you define social justice?
  • How does the profession demonstrate social
    justice?
  • Will you teach this framework to students?
  • Why? Why not?

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Thank you!!
  • Have a good day!
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