Variations in Service Provision: Politics at the Lay — Professional Interface

Abstract

The techniques for statistical analysis of variations in service provision have been much further developed in England than abroad. In the United States the preoccupations have not been to trace the determinants of variations in service provision, as Bleddyn Davies has done, but to examine the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and forms of government on the one hand, and service provision on the other. For the United States studies some variant of the following model appears to have been used.¹