Public-service ethics force agencies to expand volume instead of improving quality

Evidence

In short, the more the law becomes formal, the more numerous judicial interventions,And to the extent thatgovernmentalinterventions ofthe public authority are more and more formalized, and to the extent that administrative intervention recedes, then to the same extent justice tends to become, and must become, an omnipresent public service. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 945 (#expands, via linked claim)

The growth of the service sector represents the furthest reaches of the welfare state. The service sector penetrates every area of human needs as they are recognized and defined, and it grows within each recognized area. This is not to say that the need is met, but only that the service state breaches the barriers between public responsibility and private affairs. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 102 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Agencies under budget threat inflate client numbers to prove worth; It is dysfunctional for most street-level bureaucracies to become more responsive — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 745; Formalizing law expands the judiciary into an omnipresent public service — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 945 (+1 more)

Related

• The service state expands by breaching boundaries between public responsibility and private life (similarity 0.87)
• Formalizing law expands the judiciary into an omnipresent public service (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Formalizing law expands the judiciary into an omnipresent public service #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 945
• The service state expands by breaching boundaries between public responsibility and private life #exemplifies (0.78) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 102