In a redistributive arena of power, for instance, power is redistributed throughout the polity on a fundamental scale. Redistributive policies tend to be highly ideological and emotionally charged for particular groups, involving a fight between the haves and have-nots, but having low partisan visibility. Usually these battles are centered in the bureaucracy. Lowi, in fact, considers redistributive policies to be concerned with “not use of property but property itself, not equal treatment but equal possession, not behavior but being.” He believes, because of the secrecy enshrouding the redistributive policy process, that the policy process that takes place primarily in the government bureaucracy has received the least study by social scientists.