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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

Iain Duncan Smith
Government, Damage, Behaviour
"Reforming Welfare, Transforming Lives". Cambridge Public Policy lecture, www.ukpol.co.uk. October 25, 2012.
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing -