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Centralization and Power in Social Service Delivery Systems - The Cases of England, Wales, and the United States (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Centralization and Power in Social Service Delivery Systems - The Cases of England, Wales, and the United States (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: International Series in Social Welfare, 3
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In the United States and other western nations, debates rage over
whether welfare, medical care, educational programs, and many other
aspects of public policy should be the responsibility of central
govern ment, local government, or the private sector. In most
nations, the issues of regional autonomy and decentralization are
constantly in the news, with intensity varying from mild debate to
open warfare. Less visibly, battles are continuously fought in the
political arena over what groups should have the right to make
decisions concerning the allocation of soci ety's resources. In
response to these concerns, social scientists have focused consider
able attention on the causes and consequences of centralization and
de centralization in political, economic, and social organizations.
Their analyses of centralization have been varied, ranging from
systems that are quite small (e. g. , the family, the firm, and the
community) to those sys tems that are very large (e . g. , the
welfare state). While centralization is a concept of major concern
in most of the social science disciplines, each discipline has
tended to focus on centralization with a different set of
interests. Economists have been very much concerned with the causes
and the consequences of the concentration of economic resources.
Polit ical scientists have long sought to understand the origins
and conse quences of dictatorship and democracy. Sociologists have
focused on inequalities in the distribution of power.
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