Social Services Systems In The Post Keynes Era

The Keynesian model argues that the economic downturns can be overcome by state intervention, responding to market deficits and social needs. Whatsoever, the model does not explicitly define the governmental mechanism through which social disequilibrium can be effectively tackled. As a matter of fact, the lack of coherent governance makes the social services mechanism prone to subjectivity and political abuse. Therefore, progressing towards welfare is nowadays defined around the challenge of modeling and implementing a system architecture which allows the distribution of a collected budget to the growing social needs and demands. This article is a “picture in motion” of a complex transitional stage, describing a laboratory of social change made possible by designing a scoring method for effectively collecting and distributing a budget so as to serve the social needs. Shifting the paradigm on social casework can be made through innovative instruments properly designed to improve and dynamically allocate and deliver social services.