Public services get rationed by category as much as by price or scarcity

Evidence

Free public goods and services may be rationed by imposing costs and fixing their amount. They may also be rationed by allocating them differentially among classes of claimants. In street-level bureaucracies services are distributed differentially for at least four interconnected reasons. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 772

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Price-like costs ration free public services by discouraging contact — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 655; Monetary costs imposed on clients ration access to street-level services — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 656; Public agencies knowingly accept the demand-rationing implications of their actions — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 767 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Unbounded service obligations force workers to ration care using implicit worthiness standards. #exemplifies (0.90) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 805
• Price-like costs ration free public services by discouraging contact #expands (0.85) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 655
• Monetary costs imposed on clients ration access to street-level services #expands (0.80) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 656
• Public agencies knowingly accept the demand-rationing implications of their actions #expands (0.75) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 767