{"product_id":"politics-for-social-workers-9780231196932","title":"Politics for Social Workers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work—and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. It offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePolitics for Social Workers: A Practical Guide to Effecting Change\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Stephen Pimpare offers a historically informed and theoretically grounded assessment of current political issues . . . The book will be extremely useful to social work students and professionals who still feel uncomfortable talking openly about politics. -- David Hornung, PhD, LMSW, Assistant Professor, CUNY York College-MSW Program * The New Social Worker *\u003cbr\u003eStephen Pimpare has written a book that should be in the hands of every social worker.  Much like Saul Alinsky’s \u003ci\u003eRules for Radicals\u003c\/i\u003e, it provides an indispensable guide for navigating the politics of today in order to create a more socially just world.  Insightful and inspiring! -- Mark R. Rank, coauthor of \u003ci\u003e Poorly Understood:  What America Gets Wrong About Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePimpare combines his political science background and public policy expertise in an easy-to-read tool kit for social workers seeking to become more strategically savvy when converting their practice-based critiques of inequality and social injustice into action for social change. A myth-busting but well-documented inspection of the inequities baked into the American political system. -- Mimi Abramovitz, author of \u003ci\u003eRegulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolitics for Social Workers\u003c\/i\u003e provides a uniquely thorough explanation and in-depth analysis of the structure and functioning of our political system. Pimpare brings this analysis to bear on policies and political structures that create the inequities and marginalization that social workers seek to alleviate. The book will grant social work students a more critically informed perspective from which to approach their ethical obligations to social justice. -- Mary Hylton, Salisbury University\u003cbr\u003eFor this reason, the book has relevance not just to practising social workers and social work students, but also to social work educators as it highlights that teaching advocacy to social workers in a meaningful way is not only possible, but highly relevant in these challenging times. * British Journal of Social Work *\u003cbr\u003eThe book deserves a broad audience of laymen and scholars, instructors and students, practitioners and policymakers. * European Journal of Social Work *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The U.S. Constitution Is Undemocratic\u003cbr\u003e2. Our Representative Institutions Are Not Representative\u003cbr\u003e3. We’re Terrible at Conducting Elections\u003cbr\u003e4. We Are Exceptional—but Not in a Good Way\u003cbr\u003e5. Most of Us Will Be Poor and on Welfare\u003cbr\u003e6. Everything Is Political\u003cbr\u003e7. Conservatism Is Not Conservative and Some of Us Are More Polarized Than Others\u003cbr\u003e8. Cruel and Unjust Policies Serve a Purpose for Someone\u003cbr\u003e9. Where You Can Go Depends on Where You’ve Been\u003cbr\u003e10. Look at What’s Not Happening\u003cbr\u003e11. People Learn Lessons About Their Value from Their Interactions with Government Agencies\u003cbr\u003e12. The People Who Benefit Most from Government Are Most Likely to Claim They Don’t Benefit at All\u003cbr\u003e13. People Like Lice and Cockroaches Better Than Congress\u003cbr\u003e14. The Thing They Say About Making Sausage Is True\u003cbr\u003e15. Presidents Are Weak and Command Too Much of Our Attention\u003cbr\u003e16. It Really Is the Economy, Stupid\u003cbr\u003e17. Judges Are Players, Not Umpires\u003cbr\u003e18. People Aren’t Dumb but They Sure Are Ignorant\u003cbr\u003e19. There Is No Public\u003cbr\u003e20. There Is No View from Nowhere\u003cbr\u003e21. You Will Not Change Anyone’s Mind\u003cbr\u003e22. Social Work Is Conservative\u003cbr\u003e23. Throw Sand in the Gears of Everything\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: We Can Do Better. There Are Solutions.\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400350474583,"sku":"9780231196932","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231196932.jpg?v=1730470463","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-for-social-workers-9780231196932","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}