Middle-Class Political Activism and Middle-Class Advantage in Relation to Public Services: A Realist Synthesis of the Evidence Base
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Since the late 1960s social policy scholarship has been concerned with the distribution of the resources or benefits across social gradients. This paper presents a review of the literature on one mechanism by which inequity might be produced – activism by middle-class service users enabling them to capture a disproportionate share of resources. The review used the methodology of realist synthes...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Policy & Administration
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0144-5596
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2012.00866.x