Rationing

Abstract: The critical role of street-level bureaucrats -- Street-level bureaucrats as policy makers -- The problem of resources -- Goals and performance measures -- Relations with clients -- Advocacy and alienation in street-level work -- Rationing services : limitation of access and demand -- Rationing services : inequality in administration -- Controlling clients and the work situation -- The client-processing mentality -- The assault on human services : bureaucratic control, accountability, and the fiscal crisis -- The broader context of bureaucratic relations -- Support for human services : notes for reform and reconstruction -- On managing street-level bureaucracy.

Abstract: Allocating Scarce Medical Resources for Covid-19 The Covid-19 pandemic has already stressed health care systems throughout the world, requiring rationing of medical equipment and care. The authors ...

Abstract: Recent educational reforms in the United Kingdom (UK) have raised standards of achievement, but have also resulted in growing inequalities based on gender, race and social class. School by school league tables play a central role in the reforms. These have created an A to C economy where schools and teachers are judged on the proportion of students attaining five or more grades at levels A to C. To satisfy these demands schools are embracing new and ever more selective attempts to identify ability. This book reports on detailed research in two secondary schools showing the real costs of reform in terms of the pressures on teachers and the rationing of educational opportunity. This publication contains the following chapters: Education and equity; Reforming education: policy and practice; Ability and economy: defining 'ability' in the A-to-C economy; Selection 11-14: fast groups, 'left-over' mixed ability and the subject options process; Selection 14-16: sets, tiers, hidden ceilings and floors; Educational triage and the D-to-C conversion: suitable cases for treatment?; Pupils' experiences and perspectives: living with the rationing of education; and Conclusions: rationing education.