Welfare is the only democratic administration excluding its own beneficiaries from participation

Evidence

This exclusion of the poor, which consists in denying them the status of a final end in the teleological chain and, as we have seen, does not even permit them to stand there as a means, is also manifested in the fact that within the modern relatively democratic State public assistance is perhaps the only branch of the administration in which the interested parties have no participation whatsoever. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 415

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: ‘No representation for the aided’ — the one administrative domain where modern democracy refuses self-government, and what that implies about who counts as a full citizen.
• XREF: connects to: Welfare is the only public institution acting on individuals but for the community’s sake — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 411; Democratic referendums exclude the very population child-protection laws protect. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10072

Related

• Welfare is the only public institution acting on individuals but for the community’s sake (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Democratic referendums exclude the very population child-protection laws protect. #exemplifies (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 10072