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deservingness

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This is because entitlement perceptions are often based on an unfounded sense of superiority and deservingness.
Paterson appeared eager to defend New York's deservingness of a share of federal funds even after acknowledging that state spending had essentially gotten it into the current crisis in the first place.
In rejecting some conditional benefits restrictions, the Supreme Court issued a few key opinions that placed it distinctly at odds with dominant notions of deservingness.
 
 
 
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