Abstract
Previous chapters examined the ways in which welfare providers control clients’ access to the social services. It is now time to take an overview of the existing system of welfare rationing. This will begin by identifying the key failures attributed to current rationing methods. It will then examine critically three distinct approaches to the reform of welfare rationing which will be labelled ‘administrative reformism’, ‘the market solution’ and ‘the Marxist alternative’.
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Foster, P. (1983). Strategies for Reform. In: Access to Welfare. Studies in Social Policy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86064-7_10
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