Organized service workers can veto budget cuts through their political allies.

Evidence

There can be no better illustration of the strength of the organized service workers and their support by relevant interests than the New York State Assembly’s overriding of Gov. H ugh Carey’s veto of the so-called Stavisky bill. This legislation, written in a period of massive concern for cutting the New York City budget, required the city to spend no less on education in the three years follOWing the fiscal collapse than in the three years before the crisis, thus tying the hands of the city’s financial managers even more. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1534

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the New York City fiscal crisis case material — connects to reader’s work on institutional resistance to administrative reform.