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A Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy Analysis

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Rights-Based Approaches to Social Work Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24412-9

ISBN: 978-3-319-24410-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 24, 2016

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Understanding a Rights-Based Approach to Social Policy Analysis

Gabel, Shirley Gatenio

Pages: 1 –16

[This chapter makes the case for why we need a rights-based strategy to social policy analysis and presents an overview of how to conduct social policy analyses using a human rights-based approach. The rights-based approach incorporates some of the steps of traditional social policy analyses but...
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Understanding Human Rights and Social Policy

Gabel, Shirley Gatenio

Pages: 17 –38

[In this chapter, social issues are recast from charity-based and needs-based approaches that have dominated our thinking to understanding social issues based on human rights instruments. Rights-based framing reveals the roots of social issues and problems as interdependent and exposes the...
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Measuring Progress on the Realization of Human Rights

Gabel, Shirley Gatenio

Pages: 39 –61

[One of the challenges in adopting a rights-based approach in social policy analysis is identifying indicators that capture the ability of policies to promote or hinder the realization of human rights. Human rights indicators must account for outcome measures as called for by more conventional...
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Bringing It All Together

Gabel, Shirley Gatenio

Pages: 63 –85

[This chapter takes a social issue and analyzes it from the rights-based framework presented earlier in the book. A case study is used to illustrate gaps in parental and family leave policies in the United States. Effects of current public policies are also discussed.]

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