The Political Economy of Human Services

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The political economy of the task environment of human service programmes is a major determinant of programme policy, and therefore of the nature of administrative practice. The dynamics of the political economy of particular programmes are shaped primarily by the nature of the public goods produced, rather than the private benefits to service users. Human service programmes produce one of three types of public goods: universal, redistributive, and behaviour change/social control. Each category involves distinctive programme policy and administrative issues. Changes in resource availability or in the political climate will have different consequences for each category of programme.

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