Cheap, effective appeals would clog the system and expose its unfairness

Evidence

The reason for this is simply that if appeals channels were inexpensive to use or likely to be successful they soon would be used by clients seeking increased benefits or a favorable disposition. The channels of appeal would soon be clogged, and the manifest unfairness that some clients receive more than others because they sought more would undermine the system. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 988

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the reader’s Milgrom/Champagne Fairs work on how institutions must solve both information and motivation problems — here clogging is the failure mode when enforcement is too available. — connects to: A rejected jury instruction can become the basis for an appeal. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1403; Stacked appeals financially exhaust opponents who lack deep resources — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 949; Friction, delay, and agency hostility are the built-in costs of the appeals process — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 989

Broader Connections

• Friction, delay, and agency hostility are the built-in costs of the appeals process #expands (0.85) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 989
• Stacked appeals financially exhaust opponents who lack deep resources #complicates (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 949