Efficiency and cost-effectiveness pressure dominates street-level bureaucracies

Evidence

Thus, except in rare instances, such as a new service program in search of a clientele, street-level bureaucracies are under continuous pressure to realize the public objectives of efficiency and cost effectiveness. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 362

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Street-level bureaucracies can never be adequately resourced — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 276