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All Social Welfare Policy Is Rational

Raymond M. Leinbach

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Are we teaching our students an approach to social welfare policy that is dysfunctional to the profession's goal of influencing public policy? Some social welfare policy authors contend that all social welfare policy is irrational. The author of this paper contends that we might be better off assuming that all social welfare policy is rational. It is argued that the all-social-welfare-policy-is-reational approach will more likely lead to (1) an understanding of why a policy was adopted and (2) successful efforts to influence future policies.

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Are we teaching our students an approach to social welfare policy that is dysfunctional to the profession's goal of influencing public policy? Some social welfare policy authors contend that all social welfare policy is irrational. The author of this paper contends that we might be better off assuming that all social welfare policy is rational. It is argued that the all-social-welfare-policy-is-reational approach will more likely lead to (1) an understanding of why a policy was adopted and (2) successful efforts to influence future policies.

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Are we teaching our students an approach to social welfare policy that is dysfunctional to the profession's goal of influencing public policy? Some social welfare policy authors contend that all social welfare policy is irrational. The author of this paper contends that we might be better off assuming that all social welfare policy is rational. It is argued that the all-social-welfare-policy-is-reational approach will more likely lead to (1) an understanding of why a policy was adopted and (2) successful efforts to influence future policies.

Key concepts: Social policy, Welfare, Social Welfare, Social work, Irrational number, Public policy, Dysfunctional family, Public economics

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