Entrenched organized interests block humane service priorities from becoming policy.

Evidence

This is not likely to occur in this society of protected interests unless this social and political movement brings the priority of more humane service provision to the forefront of concern. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1520

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the fragmentation-among-parties point at 1518 and the broader literature on bureaucratic resistance to reform.