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Rowe, Stacy.

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Practicing policy and making myth: Applied anthropology and homeless service delivery in Glendale, California.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Practicing policy and making myth: Applied anthropology and homeless service delivery in Glendale, California./
Author:	Rowe, Stacy.
Description:	417 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-12, Section: A, page: 4519.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-12A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3116778

Practicing policy and making myth: Applied anthropology and homeless service delivery in Glendale, California.
Rowe, Stacy.

Practicing policy and making myth: Applied anthropology and homeless service delivery in Glendale, California. - 417 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-12, Section: A, page: 4519.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2003.

This dissertation analyzes how and why myths are generated around the development and implementation of homeless policy and how the myths and patterns of implementation are affected by Federal policy, local politics and the organizational culture of the participating stakeholders. I also discuss the conflicting roles of the practitioner-anthropologist, how this role has impacted this dissertation, and my ideas for future research and policy implications.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Practicing policy and making myth: Applied anthropology and homeless service delivery in Glendale, California.
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520 $a Federal policy and regulations regarding homeless programs set the parameters for the design and implementation of local service delivery systems. They also create the conditions under which some of the myths regarding the delivery of these services are created and promoted. This dissertation gives a history of Federal funding for homeless programs and the evolution of Federal policies and regulations governing the issue. It then provides a case study which compares idealized (albeit technically accurate) accounts of program implementation, i.e., excerpts from documents created for submission to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, with an observed account of program implementation which highlights the challenges created, in part, by the Federal regulations.
520 $a Local politics---concerns about a "magnet effect", difficulties with siting programs, the need to exert local control---also affect homeless program design and delivery. In addition, the organizational cultures of the various stakeholders---public agencies, non-profit service providers, health and mental healthcare providers, churches and community groups---also impact program design and present special challenges with implementation. Again, idealized versions presented in local media and City-generated reports are compared with an observed account of program implementation. This comparison provides insights to how conflicts are negotiated in the public/political arena and within the context of day to day service delivery.
520 $a This dissertation also discusses how my roles as an applied anthropologist, and as the City's Homeless Coordinator---a key actor in the development of the homeless continuum of care---presented unique challenges to the construction of an ethnography. Finally, the dissertation presents specific suggestions for the direction of future policy and research initiatives in the area of homeless service delivery, and for the potential role of practitioner-anthropologists in such endeavors.
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