Book Review: Rob Paton,Managing and Measuring Social Enterprises,Sage, London, 2003, 167 pp., notes,bibliography, index, $34.95

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Ths State of Welfare. Gilbert Steiner. The Brookings Institution,Washington, D. C., 1971. 356 Pages, $7.50 Hardbound

A questionnaire was developed to elicit data concerning processes and criteria used in graduate programs of social work for retention, promotion, and granting tenure to faculty members. Eighty percent of the 85 graduate programs of social work within the United States and Canada responded to the questionnaire. The results of that study are reported in this paper. Also examined was the source or sanction of the decision—either specific to the program or applied in accordance with a broader academic base, that is, graduate school or university procedures.     

Systematic Thinking for Social Action. Alice M. Rivlin. Washington,D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1971. 150 Pages, $2.50

There is an educational and professional policy within social work that obstructs needed doctoral preparation for the individualized services. This is in contrast to the trend in other professions that require the doctorate as a minimum standard for certification of professional competence The present policy is contradictory, unrealistic, and frustrating to many clinical practitioners. There are negative consequences in an abdication of social work responsibility for knowledge-building, program development, and service provision, as well as in the evocation of dysfunctional social work practitioner behavior.     

Book Review: J. Quarter,L. Mook,and B. J. Richmond,What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives,Prentice Hall,Upper Saddle River, 2003, 239 pp., references,index, $41.00

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The Neglected Aspect of Foreign Affairs,by Charles Frankel. Washington,D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1966. 148 pp. $5.00 Hardbound

This article presents one portion of the findings from a research study of the relationship between a student's prior experience and his performance in solving social work problems commonly found in a first-year MSW program. It reports a beginning effort to find variables that appear to differentiate high-scoring students on the principal research instrument with previous work experience in social work, from low-scoring students. The findings should be of particular interest to members of admissions committees and to faculty involved in curriculum planning for advanced entering students to the master's program in social work.     

Book Review: Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America by E. J. Dionne Jr. (ed.). The Brookings Institution Press,Washington, DC, 1998 (paperback 2000)

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Book Review: Michael Edwards and Alan Fowler (eds.), The Earthscan Reader on NGO Management,Earthscan, London, 2002, 455 pp., notes,index, $18.95

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Book Review: Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff,Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? Lynne Rienner Publishers,Boulder, 2002, 205 pp., bibliography,index, $19.95

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Book Review: Michael O'Neill,Nonprofit Nation: A New Look at the Third America,Jossey-Bass,San Francisco, 2002, 336 pp., preface,appendix, references,index, $35.00

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Book Review: Barbara Hobson (ed.), Recognition Struggles and Social Movements,Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, UK,and New York, 2003, 337 pp., bibliography,notes, $27.00

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Book Review: Kathy L. Brock (ed.), Improving Connections Between Governments and Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations: Public Policy and the Third Sector,McGill–Queen's University Press,Montreal, 2002, 264 pp., preface,appendix, $26.95

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Book Review: Peter Frumkin,On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer,Harvard University Press,Cambridge, MA, 2002, 213 pp., preface,notes, index, $35.00

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Book Review: Chris Cornforth (ed.), The Governance of Public and Non-Profit Organizations—What Do Boards Do? Routledge,London, 2003, 253 pp., bibliography,appendix, $95.00 (hbk)

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