Service generosity expands in crisis periods and contracts in quiescence.

Evidence

In periods of social turmoil or widely perceived crisis (the depression of the 1930S, the ghetto revolts of the 1960s, the “Sputnik” crisis in education in the 1950s) service benefits and/or funds for training and control functions increase. In periods of relative quiescence pressures are exerted to return the balance to a ratio of benefits to costs more favorable to costs. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1309

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ch5-6 claims about how governments absorb inequality via service hiring. — connects to: Service availability creates demand rather than merely satisfying it — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 292; Expanding emergency access triggers new rationing that caps the client gains. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 1038; Repeated exercises gradually convert informal access into guaranteed crisis-use rights — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 985

Broader Connections

• Repeated exercises gradually convert informal access into guaranteed crisis-use rights #corroborates (0.85) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 985