Identical welfare statutes produce opposing agency cultures across cities.

Evidence

The punitiveness of welfare administration in some cities and the liberal orientation of other welfare offices demonstrate clearly how the same statutes can spawn agencies with vastly different bureaucratic cultures. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 366

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s core hypothesis: the same formal rule set yields divergent on-the-ground institutionalized practice, so local culture changes faster than (or despite) the statute. — connects to: Identical statutes produce divergent agency cultures through community influence — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 366

Broader Connections

• Identical statutes produce divergent agency cultures through community influence #expands (0.95) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 366