Government absorbed private charity and widened its public service scope over the past century

Evidence

Not only do the salaries of street-level bureaucrats constitute a major portion of the cost of public services, but also the scope of public services employing street-level bureaucrats has increased over time. Charity was once the responsibility of private agencies. The federal government now provides for the income needs of the poor. The public sector has absorbed responsibilities previously discharged by private organizations in such diverse and critical areas as policing, education, and health. Moreover, in all these fields government not only has supplanted private organizations but also has expanded the scope of responsibility of public ones. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 87

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the expansion of state administrative capacity discussed in ‘The Frankfurt School’ (pollock state capitalism) and in Loewenstein’s street-level discretion work. — connects to: Privatisation increased costs and destroyed the public-service ethos it claimed to improve — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2272; The service state expands by breaching boundaries between public responsibility and private life — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 102; Public agencies have absorbed formerly private responsibilities for the poor. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 87 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Public agencies have absorbed formerly private responsibilities for the poor. #corroborates (0.95) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 87
• The service state expands by breaching boundaries between public responsibility and private life #expands (0.85) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 102
• Private disaster charity replaced shrinking public welfare support #contradicts (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 437